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As soon as Abe observed the suspension of prayer, he exclaimed, "Pray on, lad! it's nobbut th' owd woman's apple-cart upset," on receiving which timely exposition of the state of things, the good man resumed his intercessions, and the meeting returned to its former happy flow of feeling.
"Will yer be takkin a cheer an perhaps" she looked round uncertainly, first at Letty, then at the wet floor where she had been feebly scrubbing "perhaps the leddy ull be sittin down. I'm nobbut in a muddle. But I don't seem to get forard wi my work a mornins not sen they put im away."
We made ourselves as snug as our means allowed in the arch of the dresser. I had just fastened our pinafores together, and hung them up for a curtain, when in comes Joseph, on an errand from the stables. He tears down my handiwork, boxes my ears, and croaks: "T' maister nobbut just buried, and Sabbath not o'ered, und t' sound o' t' gospel still i' yer lugs, and ye darr be laiking!
"Yes, I must go. I think so I hope so!" She checked herself. "But I'll wrap up." "Mrs. Fountain's nobbut sadly, I unnerstan?" "She's rather better again. But I must go to-morrow. Daffady, Cousin Elizabeth won't forget to bring up the letters?" "I niver knew her du sich a thing as thattens," said Daffady, with caution. "And do you happen to know whether Mr. Bayley is coming to supper?"
"I'd be nobbut a clot-heed," he said when abdicating, "and leave nane for mysel if I sarrad it oot." Robbie Anderson now put on his great cloak, and took down a whip from a strap against the rafters. "What's this?" said little Reuben to Robbie. "Are you going without a glass?" Robbie signified his intention of doing just that and nothing else.
'She's nobbut owd, an it's a far cry fro her bit cottage to owd Needham's Farm. An th' chilt might ha deed, and t' cattle might ha strayed, and t' geyats might ha opened o' theirsels! Yo'll not dare to speak agen that. They might? Ay, ay, we aw know t' devil's strong; but she's eighty-one year coom Christmas an an . Doan't, doan't let t' childer see, nor t' yoong gells!
'But I begged and prayed of him to let me see her nobbut to say good- bye, till a woman calls down th' stairway, "She says John Learoyd's to come up." Th' old man shifts aside in a flash, and lays his hand on my arm, quite gentle like. "But thou'lt be quiet, John," says he, "for she's rare and weak. Thou was allus a good lad."
He's like a wilted leaf nobbut t'least thing will bring it down. He's worn varra thin like, heart an lungs, and aw t' rest of him." An d' yo think I'st sit still an see yo murder him the poor lamb afore my eyes me as ha got nowt else but him i' t' wide warld? No yo yoong varlet goo an ast soom one else about Jenny Crum if yo 're just set on meddlin wi divil's wark but yo'll no trouble my 'Lias.
Ye don't know 'at he mayn't ha' had secret enemies; after all, he were nowt but a stranger i' t' town nobbut been here twelve year or so. How do we know owt about him? It may be summat to do wi' t' past, this here affair. I'm none going t' believe 'at there's anybody i' Hathelsborough 'ud stick a knife into him just because he were cleaning up t' town money affairs, like."
It 'ud be strange if he didn't feel for poor Martha as well as ivery other kind heart. Her trouble hes made a' maks o' Christians feel together." "If Martha was nobbut a Church o' England woman." "Dost ta really think that t' rector is cut on that sort o' a pattern? Not he. A man may be a Christian, Peggy, even if he isn't a Wesleyan Methody.
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