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"I made sure to find 'ee dead when I brought Passon I thought you'd ha' done it to spite me." "Dear woman," answered the Squire gently, "it's for my own pleasure I'm wedding you, and not to make an honest woman of you. I've a fancy to have the old place carried on by a child who's got a right to my name, that's all." "An' our first-born, Arch'laus, can go begging all's days, s'pose?
"Whist whist! be quiet, be quiet!" said a hoarse trembling voice which it was difficult to recognise as Bainton's; "For the Lord's sake, don't make that noise, gel! Think o' Passon! do'ee think o' Passon! We must break it to 'im gently like " But the hysterical sobbing broke out again and drowned all utterance. And still Walden stood, listening. A curious rigidity affected his nerves.
Didn't ye all come clickettin' to me about the Five Sister beeches, an' ain't they still stannin'? An' Miss Maryllia 'ull stan' too just as fast an' firm as the trees, you take my wurrd for't! She ain't goin' to die! Why look at me just on ninety, an' I ain't dead yet!" But a qualm of fear and foreboding came over him whenever 'Passon' visited him.
She sauntered away across the yard, but turned her head as she reached the far end, and glanced back at Ishmael. He hesitated, pride fighting with longing; then he also began to saunter aimlessly at first; then, giving up the struggle, he frankly followed her. Lenine chuckled softly. "Talk o' the way o' a man wi' a maid 'tes nawthen to the way o' a maid wi' a man, is it, Passon?
And Bainton commenting on general events observed: "Well, I did say once that if Passon were married he'd be a fine man spoilt, but I've altered my mind now! I think he's a fine man full growed at last, like a plant what's stopped a bit an' suddenly takes a start an' begins to flower.
As for his old mother, she had thrown her apron over her head, and was quietly sobbing under its shelter. 'Well, my lad, she said, by and by, when her tears were dried, 'I've aye said that you were the best son mother ever had, and for the same a blessing will, no doubt, rest upon your head. And as for the bits o' birds an' beasts well, I've heard the old passon Mr.
John's sad face told him more than words could express. "Ain't she no better, Passon?" he would ask, timidly and tremblingly. And John, laying his own hand on the old brown wrinkled one, would reply gently, "No better, Josey! But we must hope, we must hope always, and believe that God will be merciful."
"Now if I goes, or you goes and sez to 'im: 'Passon, there's fash'nable folks from Lunnon comin' 'ere to look at ye an' listen to ye, an' for all we kin tell make mock o' ye as well as o' the Gospel itself in their 'arts' d'ye think he'd be any the better for it? No, Tummas, no! I say leave Passon alone. Don't upset 'im.
"Ay, ay you may say 'Good God! with a meaning, sir," said the leather-seller "And that's why, as we ain't got no facts and no power with bishops, and we ain't able to get at the passon anyhow, we're just making it as unpleasant for him in our way as we can. That's all the people can do, sir, but what they does, they means!"
"For," said she, "when Miss Maryllia first come 'ome she 'adn't an idee o' goin' to hear Passon Walden, an' sez I 'do-ee go an' hear 'im, an' she sez 'No, Spruce, I cannot, I don't believe in it' an' I sez to myself, 'never mind, the Lord 'e knows 'is own, which He do, but 'ard as are His ways I never did think He'd a' brought her to be Passon's wife, that do beat me, though it's just what it should be, an' if the Lord don't know what should be why then no one don't, an' that 'minds me o' when I sent for Passon to see me unpack Miss Maryllia's boxes, he was that careful he made me pick up a pair o' pink shoes what 'ad fell on the floor 'Take care o' them, he sez Lor! now I come to think of it, he was mortal struck over them pink shoes!"
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