United States or Finland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
'It's said in t' Bible, Sylvie, that we're to forgive. 'Ay, there's some things as I know I niver forgive; and there's others as I can't and I won't, either. 'But, Sylvie, yo' pray to be forgiven your trespasses, as you forgive them as trespass against you. 'Well, if I'm to be taken at my word, I'll noane pray at all, that's all.
And she'll be noane so strong till summer-weather comes, and I'd be loath to give her aught to worrit hersel' about. So thee and me 'll keep our own counsel. 'I wish mother had been here, then she'd ha' known all, without my telling her. 'Cheer up, lass; it's better as it is. Thou'll get o'er it sooner for havin' no one to let on to. A myself am noane going to speak on't again.
He gasped out, 'They're coming! the warrant is out. You must go. I hoped you were gone. 'God help us! said Bell, and sate suddenly down, as if she had received a blow that made her collapse into helplessness; but she got up again directly. Sylvia flew for her father's hat. He really seemed the most unmoved of the party. 'A'm noane afeared, said he.
'Many a time and oft have I seen Hester take comfort in her Bible when Philip was following after thee. She knew where to go for consolation. 'I'd fain read, said Sylvia, humbly, 'if anybody would learn me; for perhaps it might do me good; I'm noane so happy. Her eyes, as she looked up at Alice's stern countenance, were full of tears.
He was still in the lane when Simpson, the man-of-all-work at the Mariners' Arms, crept out of some hiding-place in the deserted outbuilding, and stood suddenly face to face with Robson. The man was white with fear and rage. 'Here, tak' thy beast, and lead her wheere she'll noane hear yon cries and shouts. She's fairly moithered wi' heat an' noise.
Phoebe might easily have told him the real state of the case; Nancy was busy at her washing, which would have been reason enough. But the nursemaid had vexed her, and she did not like Philip's sharpness, so she only said, 'It's noane o' my business; it's yo' t' look after yo'r own wife and child; but yo'r but a lad after a'.
A'm gettin' pretty well to do, an' a'm noane far t' seek, an' a'm going now: only first a just wanted for t' say as a'm thy oldest friend, a reckon, and if a can do a turn for thee, or go an errand, like as a've done to-day, or if it's any comfort to talk a bit to one who's known thy life from a babby, why yo've only t' send for me, an' a'd come if it were twenty mile.
This greyhound of a grinder flung down a lot of dull bluish blades, warm from the forge, upon a condemned grindstone that was lying in the yard; and they tinkled. " me, if I grind cockney blades!" said he. This challenge fired a sympathetic handle-maker. "Grinders are right," said he. "We must be a mean lot and all, to handle his work." "He has been warned enough; but he heeds noane."
'Ay, she's noane forgotten it, and has done her five stitches a day, bless her; and a dunnot believe as yo' know her again. She's Phoebe Moorsom, and a'm Hannah, and a've dealt at t' shop reg'lar this fifteen year. 'I'm very sorry, said Philip. 'I was up late last night, and I'm a bit dazed to-day.
But I've said my words to him hissel', and I'm noane going to make any plaint to others; only them as knows should judge.
Word Of The Day