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Be that either way and I will not speak too strongly, for fear of indulging my own annoyance anyhow, all Watchett town cared ten times as much to see John Ridd, as to show him what he wanted. I was led to every public-house, instead of to the churchyard; and twenty tables were ready for me, in lieu of a single gravestone. "Zummerzett thou bee'st, Jan Ridd, and Zummerzett thou shalt be.
Spank was in the lobby before me, and before I had recovered myself for I was vexed with my own terror he came up sidling and fawning to me, with a heavy bag of yellow leather. "Good Master Ridd, take it all, take it all, and say a good word for me to his lordship. He hath taken a strange fancy to thee; and thou must make the most of it.
Now a few more things, John Ridd; and for the present I have done with thee. All my heart leaped up at this, to get away from London so: and yet I could hardly trust to it. 'Is there any sound round your way of disaffection to His Majesty, His most gracious Majesty? 'No, my lord: no sign whatever.
"Dear me, nothing, Cousin Ridd; you never do anything to vex me." "Then I hope I shall do something now, Ruth, when I say good-bye. God knows if we ever shall meet again, Ruth: but I hope we may." "To be sure we shall," she answered in her brightest manner. "Try not to look wretched, John: you are as happy as a Maypole." "And you as a rose in May," I said; "and pretty nearly as pretty.
Ah, she is not of this black countree, she is of the breet Italie." I have tried to write it, as she said it: but it wants a better scholar to express her mode of speech. "Now, John Ridd," said the King, recovering from his thoughts about the true Church, and thinking that his wife was not to take the lead upon me; "thou hast done great service to the realm, and to religion.
'May it please your worship, I answered him loudly, 'I am John Ridd, of Oare parish, in the shire of Somerset, brought to this London, some two months back by a special messenger, whose name is Jeremy Stickles; and then bound over to be at hand and ready, when called upon to give evidence, in a matter unknown to me, but touching the peace of our lord the King, and the well-being of his subjects.
Here Lorna broke down for awhile, and cried so very piteously, that doubting of my knowledge, and of any power to comfort, I did my best to hold my peace, and tried to look very cheerful. Then thinking that might be bad manners, I went to wipe her eyes for her. 'Master Ridd, she began again, 'I am both ashamed and vexed at my own childish folly.
'Master Ridd, she said in the softest voice that ever flowed between two lips, 'have I done aught to offend you? Hereupon it went hard with me, not to catch her up and kiss her, in the manner in which she was looking; only it smote me suddenly that this would be a low advantage of her trust and helplessness.
'Much gratitude you have shown, replied Lorna, 'to Master Ridd, for all his kindness and his goodness to you. Who was it that went down, at the peril of his life, and brought your father to you, when you had lost him for months and months? Who was it? Answer me, Gwenny? 'Girt Jan Ridd, said the handmaid, very sulkily.
"You may well be ashamed, young man," he cried, with some triumph over me, "you are the biggest of all fools, as well as a conceited coxcomb. What can you want more than Ruth? She is a little damsel, truly; but finer men than you, John Ridd, with all your boasted strength and wrestling, have wedded smaller maidens.
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