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"Na-ay, thank 'ee kindly," and "Thank 'ee, sir, Ah'll ask feyther," with a genuine flush on her face due to fear of speech rather than of men, which did much to heighten her attraction for these kindly labourers and mechanics. "You be set on box 'long o' me," said Dick, and took her not too gently by the arm. But his way was barred by a red-faced cricketer in strange flannels.
Dixon Mallaby, meantime, had introduced himself to Amaryllis, getting, for his pains, but the Araminta of the sun-bonnet; and Dick, when he and the ostler had harnessed Tod in his lonely distinction, went round to find her the centre of an admiring group competing, it seemed, for her company in the brake; the girl answering with "Na-ay!"
"Nay, daddy, na-ay!" she said in a clear drawl, imitating Dick's. "Always feared, Ah be, o' talkin', when there's a many men makin' simple jests. That were a gradely word o' yourn, 'Cloth be a fine thing, but blood's a better!" And she finished with a low, cooing chuckle. Then, loud and clear, came the parson's voice. "You can let 'em go now, Mr. Bunce," he said.
If I had bin him I know I should soon have had the forty-round apple ladder up agen your window to see what you were about." "Anyone else?" cried Waller. "Ay. Old Fatty Gusset, as aforesaid; old cobbler!" "But you haven't dropped a hint, Bunny?" "Dropped a hint! Na-ay! I'd sooner drop his old lapstone on his toe."
'So I did, rejoined his friend; 'but I have thought further of the matter since then. You distrust me in the business you shall find her out yourself. 'Na-ay, remonstrated Lord Verisopht. 'But I say yes, returned his friend. 'You shall find her out yourself. Don't think that I mean, when you can I know as well as you that if I did, you could never get sight of her without me. No.
Old Stephen had something to say about this, and preferred to put it as a contradiction to Keziah. "Na-ay, na-ay, wife! O'or Gwen can guess a lady, by tokens, as well as thou or I. Tha-at be the story of it. Some la-ady that's coom by ill-luck in her o'ald age, and no friend to hand. She'm gotten a friend now, and a good one!"
"All right, Master Waller." "And as for the money you will miss, Bunny, I have got some saved up, and you shall have the waistcoat and the boots before a month's passed." "Na-ay, I shan't," growled the man. "Bang the boots and the weskit! I won't have 'em now. You say it's right for that there poor young chap to be took care of, and it shall be done.
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