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She's got a chap to travel wi' him as can talk aw th' languages under th' sun." Her face flushed and she stopped herself sharply. "I'm talkin' about her to thee!" she said. "I would na ha' believed o' mysen'." He got up from his chair. "I guess I oughtn't to have come," he said, restlessly. "But you haven't told me more than I got here and there in the papers. That was what started me.
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.
Look! you can see the smoke rising now." "Didn't you see it last night?" "Nay, lad; I fished till I couldn't see, for the baits, and then went home and fitted the hooks on to the bands and see to the blethers, and then I happed mysen oop and went to sleep." "And heard and saw nothing of the fire?" "Nay, I see nowt, lad.
"I couldn't frame mysen to sleep to-night, Miss Hallam, till I said a word to you. God gave you a glad surprise this morning; that's his way mostly. Hev you noticed that great blessings come when we are nivver expecting 'em?" "No, I don't think I have; and why should they?" "I hev my own thoughts about it. Mebbe it isnt allays as easy for God's angels to do his will as we think for.
Give it up right now! It's worse nor drink, as a habit. Kiss 'em, cuddle 'em, beat 'em. But dunna' reason wi' 'em. 'What should you have done in my place? Harold asked. 'I should ha' told Maud her was quite right. 'But she wasn't. 'Then I should ha' winked at mysen i' th' glass, continued Dan, 'and kissed her. 'That's all very well
Not as I knawed much about it, for I fell on th' back of my head, an' was knocked stupid like. An' when I come to mysen it were mornin', an' I were lyin' on the settle i' Jesse Roantree's house-place, an' 'Liza Roantree was settin' sewin'. I ached all ower, and my mouth were like a limekiln.
Seemt like he couldna cling to it like I did an' I begun to fight agen it, an' when I heerd about that lass o' Barnegats I towd yo', an' when I seen yo' believed what I didna believe mysen, it run me dafter yet, an' I put more to what he said, an' held back some, an' theer it wur an' theer it stands, an' if I've earnt a curse, lass, I've getten it, fur fur I thowt yo'd been learnin' to care fur me a bit sin' we wur wed, an' God knows I've tried to treat yo' fair an' kind i' my poor way.
Now then, sir," continued Bob, shouldering his pack, "if you please, I'll be glad to go and see about makin' Mr. Tom's fortin. Eh, I wish I'd got another twenty pound to lay out mysen; I shouldn't stay to say my Catechism afore I knowed what to do wi't." "Stop a bit, Mr. Glegg," said the lady, as her husband took his hat, "you never will give me the chance o' speaking.
"Well, Bob, I'm sure he'll be indebted to you, whatever he becomes; he said so himself only the other night, when he was talking of you." "Eh, Miss, that's his way o' takin' it. But I think the more on't when he says a thing, because his tongue doesn't overshoot him as mine does. Lors! I'm no better nor a tilted bottle, I ar'n't, I can't stop mysen when once I begin.
And i' th' class-meetings they said as I mun have some experiences to tell, and I hadn't a word to say for mysen. 'Blast and me moped a good deal, and happen we didn't behave ourselves over well, for they dropped us and wondered however they'd come to take us up. I can't tell how we got through th' time, while i' th' winter I gave up my job and went to Bradford.
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