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"No, indeed, marm," answered Becky; "I often says, says I: 'Child, you be the son of Sint Poll's." Beck smiled proudly. "It was agin the grit church, marm But it's a long story.
I trust you did not neglect to avail yourself of the Ah!" said he complacently on catching a glimpse of Poll's face, "I think I ought to recollect your features, my good woman but, no I can't say I do No, I must mistake them for those of another but, indeed, the best of us is liable to mistake and error all frail flesh is grass."
It was half-past nine of a radiant winter's night, and the Widder Poll's tooth still ached, though she was chewing cloves, and had applied a cracker poultice to her cheek.
"Wall, I ain't got any horses, but I got two of the derndest mules you ever seen, mister. Moll and Poll's good as any mustang in this valley. Mary and me can ride 'em anywheres; that's why I brung 'em along, to ride in case we had to eat the cattle." "Then they must surely ride Moll and Poll to visit my mother!" the señorita declared with her customary decisiveness. "Padre mio!"
Wright disappeared from view, the bird turned its attention to other topics, and after surveying us with commendable attention, croaked out, "Give me bread; Poll's hungry." "And so am I," Mr. Brown answered, making an attempt to stroke the bird's head, but the familiarity was rebuked by a vigorous peck, that almost started the skin.
They were not nice according to Swift's definition, nor proper in the mode of the best society, but they were good and pure; are the disciples and lecturers of the 'proper' equally so? Sally's simple preparations were quickly made. By nine o'clock she was safe on the pillion behind Long Snapps, folded in Aunt Poll's red joseph, and provided with saddle-bags full of comforts and necessaries.
'The brat! says she, laughing like mad, 'oh, I got rid o' that when you were in jail, Bill. 'As how? says I. 'Why, there was a woman begging agin St. Poll's churchyard; so I purtended to see a frind at a distance: "'Old the babby a moment," says I, puffing and panting, "while I ketches my friend yonder."
No sooner was the coast clear than the street-door opened, and my stranger was joined by a mantled form, that glided into Poll's emporium. The new-comer doffed a swart sombrero, and disclosed historic features that were not unknown to the concealed observer meaning me. "Magnificently, Sire!" says the other chap. "Our passages taken?"
I have put two and two together, just as the parish will be doing to-morrow, and the whole of Tweeddale in two weeks, and the Black Brothers well, I won't put a date on that; it will be a dark and stormy morning! Your secret, in other words, is poor Poll's. And I want to ask of you as a friend whether you like the prospect?
Poll's laughter was loud and vehement on hearing these sentiments from a man she knew so well; but, to tell the truth, Darby, who felt that, in consequence of his last interview with Lucre, he was in for it, came to the resolution of doing it heavy, as they say, or, in other words, of going the whole hog. "This appears to be a strange country, observed the traveller.
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