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He was known as "Old Rafferty," despite the fact that he was well under fifty. He had been a pit-boy at the age of nine, and he showed Hal a faded leather album with pictures of his ancestors in the "oul' country" men with sad, deeply lined faces, sitting very stiff and solemn to have their presentments made permanent for posterity.
"Yes, sir: he'd ha hoisted his broad pendant afore this, would old Ding-dong, pit-boy and powder-monkey and all, only for that. And as I'd ha gone h'up with him as he went h'up, so I goes down with him when he goes down. I know'd old Ding-dong. He was the man for me. Talk o fightin!
It was the first time that such an invitation had been given to him, and he felt it as the first recognition yet made that he was something more than an ordinary pit-boy; but for all that he felt, when he followed his master into the next room, that he would have rather been anywhere else.
Besides him, there was only Tim who was earning; and though Tim was a good lad, and worked steady, any doctor ought to know that a big family could not be kept going on the wages of one eighteen-year-old pit-boy. As for the other lads, there was a law that said they were too young to work. Mrs.
I should get a great many social advantages by marrying him, whatever you may do or say; and a thousand a year to me looks a great deal more than it does to you. But then, you see, my father began life as a pit-boy Yes, I think it might be done!" The speaker raised herself to her full height, and stood with her hands behind her, gazing at Lady Coryston.
"I was a pit-boy; he was a gentleman: we was friends." The voice was gruff again. "Ran away to sea same night he from the Hall; me from the pit-mouth. Met under the old oak on the green. "'Ready, Bill? says he. "'Right, sir, says I. "'Then forge ahead. "And forge ahead it was, and never parted, till the Lord saw good to come atween us for the time bein at St. Vincent."
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