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Updated: June 13, 2025
'He's a queer-lookin' tyke, but a don't think as he's a bad un. 'When did he come? said Sylvia, remembering Kester's account of his sister's character, and feeling as though it behoved her, as Kester's confidante on this head, to give cautious and prudent advice. 'Eh! a matter of a s'ennight ago. A'm noane good at mindin' time; he's paid me his rent twice, but then he were keen to pay aforehand.
'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.
Indeed she did look defiant, with the swift colour flushing her cheeks to crimson on its return, and the fire in her eyes not yet died away. But at Molly's jesting words she sank back into her usual look and manner, only saying quietly, 'It's for noane to say whether I'm vixen or not, as doesn't know th' past things as is buried in my heart.
At last a thinks to mysel' a can't get free o' t' line, and t' line is fast to t' harpoon, and t' harpoon is fast to t' whale; and t' whale may go down fathoms deep wheniver t' maggot stirs i' her head; an' t' watter's cold, an noane good for drownin' in; a can't get free o' t' line, and a connot get my knife out o' my breeches pocket though t' captain should ca' it mutiny to disobey orders, and t' line's fast to t' harpoon let's see if t' harpoon's fast to t' whale.
To the surprise of all, Molly's words of reply were cut short even when they were on her lips, by Sylvia. Pale, fire-eyed, and excited, with Philip's child on one arm, and the other stretched out, she said, 'Noane can tell noane know. No one shall speak a judgment 'twixt Philip and me. He acted cruel and wrong by me.
'They're brennin' ivery rag I have i' t' world, gasped out Simpson: 'I niver had much, and now I'm a beggar. 'Well! thou shouldn't ha' turned again' thine own town-folks, and harboured t' gang. Sarves thee reet. A'd noane be here leadin' beasts if a were as young as a were; a'd be in t' thick on it.
'Oh! said Molly, enlightened as to Sylvia's 'news, and half surprised at the vehemence with which the little creature spoke; 'yes; a heerd that days ago. But Charley's noane on his death-bed, he's a deal better; an' mother says as he's to be moved up here next week for nursin' and better air nor he gets i' t' town yonder. 'Oh! I am so glad, said Sylvia, with all her heart.
And she says Philip is there, and a soldier, and that he saved her husband's life, and is coming home soon. I wonder what John and Jeremiah 'll say to his soldiering then? It'll noane be to their taste, I'm thinking.
A wish t' gang, and thee, and Hobbs and them mad folk up yonder, were a' down i' hell, a do. 'Coom, lad, said Daniel, noways offended at his companion's wish on his behalf. 'A'm noane flush mysel', but here's half-a-crown and tuppence; it's a' a've getten wi' me, but it'll keep thee and t' beast i' food and shelter to-neet, and get thee a glass o' comfort, too.
'Come, missus! come, missus! said he, 'there couldn't be more ado if a'd been guilty of murder, an' yet a say again, as a said afore, a'm noane ashamed o' my doings. Here, Sylvie, lass, tak' thy mother off me, for a cannot do it mysel', it like sets me off. His voice was quavering as he said this. Good-by, my lass; look well after mother, and ask Philip for guidance if it's needed.
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