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Where Gladys is, you're seure to be pretty near. She's a good sort of young 'ooman enough, but you have no call to be for ever hunting after her. 'I don't see why I shouldn't if I like. It doesn't hurt anybody, and is only kind to her. 'But I don't cheuse her to be thinking you're going to make love to her, and by-and-by, perhaps, expecting to there's no knowing what young 'oomen may expect.
'Thirty mile and carrying double is too much for my mare. take the 'oomen! they'll be the death 'o me, one way and another. There's mother, and Netta, and Miss Gwynne, and now this Gladys! This is the last time I'll put myself out for any of 'em, or my name isn't David Prothero. It was about half-past ten o'clock when Mr Prothero and Gladys started on their homeward journey.
H'Allan will discover your female." "And don't call her a 'female, it sounds indecent. Remember, she has a Bajan with her, six feet tall, named Stephanie. Who knows? Maybe you can win Stephanie for yourself." Kirk chuckled at the thought. "No, sar, if you please. Those Bajan 'oomen is all very disagreeable."
Mrs Prothero read, her dear son's letter with tears in her eyes, the sudden sight of which caused sympathetic tears to flow from the eyes of the poor work-girl, much to the surprise of Mr Prothero, who chanced to look round to see whether his coat was finished. 'Hang the 'oomen, he muttered to himself, 'they can't read a bit of a letter without blubbing.
'Oh! but he told me he should marry me, and that Colonel Vaughan said he was my uncle. 'Children and 'oomen all alike, says the farmer; 'thinking of marriage as soon as they can speak. Gladys, why don't you teach the child better? 'It was the champagne, father, says Owen. 'My full impression is, that a few glasses more and you would have kissed Lady Mary.
'If she was ill, sir, I don't think any one 'ould know it, she's so quiet and patient; but I think she's pretty well, and she can't help being happy, for she's just the same as if she was at home with her father and sister. Now she is a nice lady! If all 'oomen were like her there 'ouldn't be half the plague with 'em there is.
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