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Yet, by way av a thank-offerin' that I was not led into felony by that wicked ould woman, I'll send a thrifle to Father Victor for the poor people he's always beggin' for." But me an' Orth'ris, he bein' Cockney, an' I bein' pretty far north, did nut see it i' t' saame way. We'd getten t' brass, an' we meaned to keep it. An' soa we did for a short time.
'Soon or late. I, seeing his haggard face, knew what he meaned. And at a town whose name hath slipped me, but 'twas on a fair river, as we came to the foot of the bridge he halted, and shuddered. 'Why what is the coil? said I. 'Oh, blind, said he, 'they are justifying there. So nought would serve him but take a boat, and cross the river by water.
She came thoughtfully in, and said: "I've been taking a thoucht, and this is no what yon gude physeecian meaned; ye are no to fling your chaerity like a bane till a doeg; ye'll gang yoursel to Jess Rutherford; Flucker Johnstone, that's my brother, will convoy ye." "But how is your brother to know me?" "How? Because I'll gie him a sair sair hiding, if he lets ye gang by."
Mauled un'! In course I've mauled un'. And I meaned it. That ere young woman is engaged to be my wife. 'No, I ain't, shouted Ruby. 'But she is, persisted John Crumb. 'Well then, I never will, rejoined Ruby. John Crumb turned upon her a look of love, and put his hand on his heart.
"I am very happy to see you again. Won't you shake hands, to forgive, because I meaned no harm, and did no wrong thing but obey the sweet ladies' wish when they would go to that House of the Crocodile. I too much punished when I been sent away." "That's past now, and forgotten," said Monny, shrinking slightly from the outstretched hand.
"Yo' see, I was not o' much account wi' 'em all exceptin' to 'Liza Roantree, and I had a deal o' time settin' quiet at meetings and horotorio practices to hearken their talk, and if it were strange to me at beginnin', it got stranger still at after, when I was shut on it, and could study what it meaned. "Just after th' horotorios come off, 'Liza, as had allus been weakly like, was took very bad.
You never saw him, an' an' you never seed 'Liza Roantree never seed 'Liza Roantree.... Happen it was as much 'Liza as th' preacher and her father, but anyways they all meaned it, an' I was fair shamed o' mysen, an' so I become what they call a changed character. And when I think on, it's hard to believe as yon chap going to prayermeetin's, chapel, and class-meetin's were me.
'He never said it, Kirsty! cried Phemy, her cheeks now glowing, now pale as death. 'He daurna! 'He daured; and he daured to me! He said, "I wudna merry her gien baith o' ye gaed doon upon yer knees to me!" 'Ye maun hae sair angert him, Kirsty, or he wudna hae said it! Of coorse he wasna to be guidit by you! He cudna hae meaned what he said! He wad never hae said it to me!
Then Abey leans over the counter an' ketches me by the neck 'andkerchief an' says, 'Think of the worst life you know, an' 'ave a bit on that. Naturally, talkin' o' bad lives, you're the first chap whose name comes into my 'ead." "Me!" ejaculated the engineer, starting. "But it wasn't wickedness old Abey meaned," continued the stoker, "only un'ealthiness in general.
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