promise'e

Updated: May 23, 2025

I couldn't draw breath comfortable wi'out knawin' you was breathin' the same air, my son." "You'll live to knaw I was in the right. If fortune doan't come to you, you must go to it, I reckon. Anyways, I ban't gwaine to bide here a laughing-stock to Chagford; an' you'm the last to ax me to." "Miller would never let Phoebe go." "I shouldn't say 'by your leave' to him, I promise'e.

Eden Phillpotts - Children of the Mist