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"My dear," she wrote to her friend, "one thing you learn from a Catholic Lent is that food matters 'nowt at aw, as they would say in these parts. You can do just as well without it as with it. Why you should think yourself a saint for not eating it puzzles me. Otherwise vive la faim!
"Tammas, yo' know it's a queer thing awthegither! What are they coomin' here for at all?" "Well, master's coom into t' property, an' I'm thinkin' it's nobbut his dooty to coom an' see it. It's two year sen he came into 't; an' he's done nowt but tak' t' rents, an' turn off men, an' clutter up t' house wi' boxes, iver sense. It's time, I'm thinkin', as he did coom an' luke into things a bit."
The folk that come tae me that I've ne'er clapped een upon! The total strangers who think they've nowt to do but ask me for what they want! Men will ask me to lend them siller to set themselves up in business. Lassies tell me in a letter they can be gettin' married if I'll but gie them siller to buy a trousseau with.
I ha' time enough all day, for I ha' nowt to do but just to open and shut a door when the tubs come along; but I ha' no light." "The time must seem very long in the dark all day." "It do seem long, sir; and it will be wuss when I want to read, and know I am just wasting time. But I can read at home after work, when dad goes out. It's light now, and I could read out o' doors till nine o'clock.
Thou know'st, Maister Ned, they do say, but in course oi knows nowt about it, as he be the head of the Luddites in this part of Yorkshire.
"Ay, that it be," Luke agreed; "but it is nowt to a storm oi saw when oi war a young chap on t' coast!" "I did not know you had ever been away from Varley," Ned said, "tell me about it, Luke." "Well, it coomed round i' this way. One of t' chaps from here had a darter who had married and gone to live nigh t' coast, and he went vor a week to see her.
I and another boy were walking back to Marsden from fishing, and he wouldn't let us pass; it was too far to go back again, so of course we had to try, and then there was a fight, but it was quite an accident his breaking his leg." "Did'st see nowt afore ye had the voight?" one of the other men inquired.
"At my cost?" said Osborn with a sarcastic smile. "Enforcing the old manorial rights, which nobody knows much about, would be an expensive business, and I have no money to risk. However, if Bell is willing to pay the lawyers " "I'll pay nowt but rent. It's high enough," Bell declared. Osborn shrugged. "Very well! It would cost too much to try to frighten Askew off.
So I gets 'im into his chair and begins pullin' his boots off. 'What makes you talk like that? I sez. 'You knows as you was ever so much better last night. When you've had yer medicine you'll be all right. He said nowt for a time, but just sat, tremblin' and shiverin' in his chair. So I sez, 'Hadn't you better 'ave the doctor? 'It's no good, he sez; 'I'm come 'ome for the last time.
"Nowt o' t' sort!" retorted the blacksmith. "He'd be safe on t' sound part o' t' bridge it's only a piece on 't that gave way. I say that theer idea wants in-quirin' into. An' theer's another thing what wor that lawyer-clerk chap fro' Barford Pratt doin' about theer? What reight had he to be prowlin' round t' neighbourhood o' that bridge, and at that time?
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