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'I don't think nout about it, replied Dudley, surlily. 'Is that account true? said my uncle, handing him the paper. 'They wishes us to believe so, at any rate. 'Answer directly, sir. We have our thoughts upon it. If it be true, it is capable of every proof. For expedition's sake I ask you. There is no use in prevaricating. 'Who wants to deny it? It is true there! 'There!
Well, and I have a rare good appetite. With that I wanted to go and smell it, and not to stop for Betty. 'Troost thee for thiccy, Jan Ridd. But thee must keep it bit langer, I reckon. Her baint coom, Maister Ziderpress. Whatt'e mak of that now? 'Do you mean to say that Uncle Ben has not arrived yet, Betty? 'Raived! I knaws nout about that, whuther a hath of noo. Only I tell 'e, her baint coom.
'There was nout much strange about him, old Wyat said, 'but that his scent-bottle was spilt on its side over on the table, and he dead. She thought he was not quite cold when she found him, and she sent the old butler for Doctor Jolks, who said he died of too much 'loddlum. Of my wretched uncle's religion what am I to say? Was it utter hypocrisy, or had it at any time a vein of sincerity in it?
They'll settle me nicely if they do; and Governor knows all about it, and won't gi'e me a danged brass farthin', an' me wi' bills to pay, an' lawyers dang 'em writing letters. He knows summat o' that hisself, does Governor; and he might ha' consideration a bit for his own flesh and blood, I say. But he never does nout for none but hisself.
This exertion helped to anger him, and when he halted before me, his dark face smirched with smoke and dust, and the nostrils of his flat drooping nose expanded and quivered as he panted, like the gills of a fish; an angrier or uglier face it would not be easy to fancy. 'Ye'll all come when ye like, will ye? and do nout but what pleases yourselves, won't you? And who'rt thou?
Tom was silent, while with a vacant gape he watched the spin of his half-crown twice, and then catching it with a smack in his hand, which he thrust into his pocket, he said, still looking in the same direction 'I never rid postilion in my days, ma'am. I know nout o' sich a place, though 'appen I maught a' bin there; Knowl, ye ca't.
'Law bless ye, the doctor knows all about it, miss. The old woman's face had a gleam of that derision which is so shocking in the features of feebleness and age. 'But it is a fit, it is paralytic, or something horrible it can't be safe to leave him to chance or nature to get through these terrible attacks. 'There's no fear of him, 'tisn't no fits at all, he's nout the worse o't.
Inside was a narrow floor and walls and vault o' brick; we could not see what was in it, for 'twas dark as pick. "When my aunt had lighted the candle, the squire held it up and stept in. "My aunt stood on tiptoe tryin' to look over his shouther, and I did na see nout. "'Ha! ha! says the squire, steppin' backward. 'What's that? Gi' ma the poker quick! says he to my aunt.
By Jen! and he leans oo'er and tuk it; and he sagged like, and so it drew him in, under the mere, before I cud du nout. There was nout to thraa tu him, and no time; down he went, and I followed; and thrice I dived before I found him, and brought him up by the hair at last; and there he is, poor lad! and all one if he lay at the bottom o' t' mere."
'If ye bid me go I'd a'most go, but I could na quite; there's nout on earth I would na do for you, Maud, excep' leaving you. 'And that, I said, with a petulant flush, 'is the only thing on earth I would ask you to do. 'Blessed if you baint a blushin', Maud, he drawled, with an odious grin. His stupidity was proof against everything.
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