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Lessways warmly deprecated any apology for inexactitude, and wiped her sympathetic eyes. "It's all over with father," Mrs. Grant resumed. "Doctor hinted to me quiet-like as he'd never leave his bed again. He's laid himself down for the rest of his days.... And he'd been warned! He'd had warnings. But there!..." Mrs.
'Eh, but it is peaceful and quiet-like, and the Lord bides with me, "and darkness and light are both alike to him," finished Elspeth reverently. And then I heard the click of the gate, and rose hastily, only the baby cried as I laid her on Elspeth's lap, and I had to stay a moment to pacify her. Mr. Hamilton came in and stood by us.
But there," with a return to his cunning look, "I don't know that I've got anything to tell." Horrocks laughed softly. "Yes yes, I know. You needn't be afraid." Then lowering his voice: "I've got a roll of bills in my pocket." "Ah, then don't stay here talking. There's lots to tell, but they'd kill me if they suspected. Where can I see you quiet-like?
The older ones was settin' around doin' sums on their slates, or playin' checkers an' cat's-cradle. They quarrelled considerable, an' they was pretty shabby, an' I never had a chance to set down an' read the Bugle quiet-like, after supper, because the mendin'-basket was always waitin' for me, piled right up to the brim.
'Stand back, says he, 'till Oi see what's needed. Yez should have seen him walk into that sheet av flame, an' stand theer, quiet-like, thinkin', an' it so hot that we at the door were coverin' our faces to save them from scorchin'. Then he says: 'Get your muskets! We went, an' Moike says to me: 'It's no good. No man can touch them cars. He's goin' to attind to the strikers, But not he.
But I looked in two or three times and the little dears was sleeping like angels in a picture so Peter and I we thought it would be a pity to disturb you. Had you so far to come this morning? "Not far at all," said Tim. "I cannot think what made me so sleepy, nor master and missy neither. Perhaps it's the being so quiet-like here after all the flurry of getting off and thinking they'd be after us.
And so they go on talking to each other, quiet-like, like old married folks, not like lovers at all, sir. But I can't help fancying it have something to do with my Aggy's pale face." "And something to do with Joe's pale face too, Mrs. Coombes," I said. "Thank you. You've told me more than I expected. It explains everything. I must have it out with Joe now."
Like her mother, I suppose. You an' she was sort of sisters, wasn't you? He observed her closely. Clem laughed and shrugged her shoulders. 'Queer sort o' sisters. She was a bit too quiet-like for me. There never was no fun in her. 'Aye, like her mother. And where did you say she went to with the old man?
Our little dead child that you built such hopes upon, and that never breathed the breath of life it has made you quiet-like, Milly." "I am very happy in the recollection of it, William dear," she answered. "I think of it every day." "I was afraid you thought of it a good deal." "Don't say, afraid; it is a comfort to me; it speaks to me in so many ways.
Bainton, that you can't see our lady, more 'specially as you wishes to give a message from Passon Walden himself but you jest go back and tell 'im 'ow it is; Miss Vancourt is restin' and can't be disturbed nohow." Bainton twirled his cap nervously in his hand. "I s'pose no one couldn't say to her quiet-like as 'ow the Five Sisters be chalked? Mrs.
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