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"Ah, my beauty, gone away," repeated Josey, with a curious sort of placid satisfaction "Passon, he be lookin' downhearted like, an' a change o' scene 'ull do 'im good mebbe, an' bring 'im back all the better for it. He came an' said good-bye to me this marnin'." Maryllia stood for a moment irresolute. Why had he gone away? Her brows met in a little puckered line of puzzled wonder.
Fuller in the body seemin'ly, an' gypsy-brown, by God! So brown as me, every bit. Well, well, I caan't say nothin'. I'm carried off my legs wi' wonder, an' joy, tu, for that matter. Next to Phoebe an' mother I allus loved 'e best. Gimme a kiss. What a woman, to be sure! Like a thief in the night you went; same way you've comed back. Why couldn't 'e wait till marnin'?"
Uncle Chirgwin also appeared, and said some hard things in a sleepy voice, while Tom drank cider and ate a big slice of bread and bacon. "A terrible Old Testament man, your faither, sure 'nough," said Uncle Chirgwin. "Be you gwaine to stop the night 'long o' us or no?" "Not me! I got to be in the bwoat 'fore half-past five to-morrer marnin'."
Having deposited him there, and seen to his comfort, Spruce and Bainton left him to his night's rest, and held a brief colloquy outside his cottage door. "I'm awful 'feard goin' to-morrow marnin' up to the Five Sisters with ne'er a tool and ne'er a man, Leach 'ull be that wild!" said Spruce, his rubicund face paling at the very thought "If I could but 'ave 'ad written instructions, like!"
Mother won't never turn against me, an' so long as your faither can forgive, the rest of the world's welcome to look so black as it pleases." "Faither'll forgive 'e." "He might just wance more. He've got to onderstand my points better late days." "Come an' sleep then, an' fret no more till marnin' light anyway." "'Tis the thing hidden, hanging over my head, biding behind every corner.
"Sure, I didn't know yez had that room," she said. "Did you see the two men who had this room?" demanded the youth. "I did not." "They robbed me and ran away." "Saints preserve us! Robbed ye? Of phat?" "Of everything I had. Sure you didn't see 'em?" "Not since this marnin'." "Well, they must have just gone out," said Dick, and ran down the stairs and to the office.
"How can we get from here without a boat?" asked Charley. "Now that's a fair question!" admitted Skipper Zeb, "but 'tis easy to answer. We're not so far from Double Up Cove. I can walk un in an hour, whatever. Toby and I goes in the marnin', if the sea calms down in the night, and I'll be comin' with another boat. I'm thinkin' 'twill clear before we turns in, whatever.
"He's dead Uncle he went quite sudden at the end; an' he'm to lie to Chagford wi' gran'faither an' gran'mother." "Dead! My God! An' I never seed un more! The best friend to me ever I had leastways I thought so till this marnin'." "You may think so still." "Ess, so I do. A kind man inside his skin. I knawed un better'n most people an' he meant well when he married me, out of pure love to us both."
Theer's more o' God in that gert shine o' buttercups 'pon the grass than in all them whey-faced chapel folks put together." "My stars, Joan!" "'Tis truth, an' you'll find 'tis some day, same as what I have." "I doan't see how any lad be gwaine to make heaven myself," said Tom gloomily. "Us had a mining cap'n from Camborne preach this marnin', an', by Gollies!
All the village is on its knees this marnin' I reckon, whether it's workin' in fields or gardens, or barns or orchards, an' if the Lord A'mighty don't take no notice of us, He must be powerful 'ard of 'earin'!" Adam Frost coughed warningly, jerked his thumb in the direction of the church, and was silent. Suddenly a lark sang.