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John took the hint. He 'kept a still tongue' and turned back from the garden into the house. Bainton chuckled softly. "Passon can't lie!" he said to himself "He couldn't do it to save his life! That's just the best of 'im! Now if he'd begun tellin' me that he was sure that blackhearted rascal 'ad gone to keep company with the angels I'd a nigh despised im! I would reely now!"
My propositions never was more than agreeable conversation to her, but it might have come. Tell her theer's a world beyond marriage customs, an' us'll meet theer." Old Lezzard showed a good deal of anger at this speech, but being in a minority fell back and held his peace. "Would 'e like to see passon, dear sawl?" asked Mr.
'Oh! yo want to know abeawt Jenny Crum's pool, do yo? he said at last in a low agitated voice. 'Nobbut look, my lad! nobbut look! an see for yoursen. He paused, his chest heaving, his eye fixed. Then, suddenly, he broke out in a flood of passionate speech, still gripping David. 'Passon Maine! Passon Maine! ha yo got her, th' owd woman?
He went into the house, and there was confronted in his own hall by a big burly figure clad in rough corduroys, that of Farmer Thorpe, who doffed his cap and pulled his forelock respectfully at the sight of him. "'Evenin', Passon!" he said "I thought as 'ow I'd make bold to coom an' tell ye my red cow's took the turn an' doin' wonderful!
"No, sir, there ain't no ladies there, 'cept Miss Tabitha, onny some London gents, and Sir Morton, 'e flew into an orful passion like 'e do, sir, an' told us to leave off singin' and git out, 'Git off my ground, he 'ollers 'Git off! then jest as we was a gittin' off, he cools down suddint like, an' 'e sez, sez 'e: 'Take a note to the dam passon for me, an' bring a harnser, an' I'll give yer somethink when yer gits back. An' all the gents was a-sittin' at breakfast, with the winders wide open an' the smell of 'am an' eggs comin' through strong, an' they larfed fit to split theirselves, an' one on 'em tried to kiss Kitty Spruce, an' she spanked his face for 'im!"
A litter as clean an' sweet as daisies in new-mown hay, an' now's the time for ye to look at 'em, Passon, an' choose yer own suckin' beast for bilin' or roastin' which ye please, for both's as good as t'other, an' there ain't no man about 'ere what desarves a sweet suckin' pig more'n you do, an' that I say an' swear to.
It's case o' leadin' on, an' guidin' beyond our knowledge, Mr. Bennett, an' that's wot Passon Walden tells us. HE don't bother us wi' no 'hows' nor 'whys' nor 'wherefores' he says we can FEEL God with us in our daily work, an' so we can, if we've a mind to!
Three cheers for Missis Passon!" Shouts of laughter followed this irreverent proposal, together with much whooping and cheering as never was.
An' them as grazes on Passon Walden, gittin' out of 'im all they can to 'elp 'em along, wouldn't go to church, no more than Miss Vancourt do, if they didn't know wot a man 'e is to be relied on in times o' trouble, an' a reg'lar 'usband to the parish in sickness an' in 'elth, for richer, for poorer, for better, for worse, till death do 'im part.
"Mebbe Passon Walden was thinkin' of Oliver Leach," suggested Bainton with a slight twinkle in his eye; "And 'ow m'appen we'd best be all of us meek and quiet when he's by. It might be so, Mr. Buggins, Passon's a rare one to guess as 'ow the wind blows nor'- nor'-east sometimes in the village, for all that it's a warm day and the peas comin' on beautiful. Eh, now, Mr. Buggins?"
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