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"John Ridd, I thought none could come nigh your folk in honesty, and goodness, and duty to their neighbours!" "Sure enough, my lord; but by our folk, I mean ourselves, not the men nor women neither " "That will do, John. Go thy way. Not men, nor women neither, are better than they need be."
'What is a little drop like this to a man of your size and strength, Cousin Ridd? she said, with her cheeks just brushed with rose, which made her look very beautiful; 'I have heard you say that your head is so thick or rather so clear, you ought to say that no liquor ever moves it. 'That is right enough, I answered; 'what a witch you must be, dear Ruth, to have remembered that now!
"He had better not," said I; "I will fling him over it, if he dare. He shall see thee through the roof, Lorna, if at all he see thee." "Master Ridd, you are worse than Carver! I thought you were so kind-hearted. That was why I gave the token that I wished to see you, Master Ridd.
'You seem to be disappointed, John, said Uncle Reuben, looking blue by the light of the flambeaux; 'did you expect to see the roof of gold, and the sides of gold, and the floor of gold, John Ridd? 'Ha, ha! cried Master Carfax; 'I reckon her did; no doubt her did. 'You are wrong, I replied; 'but I did expect to see something better than dirt and darkness.
Arter wha's come and gone, we t'ree can't hob an' nob, as ye may say, together. My ch'ice is made, then, and this is how I ha' fixed it up. When yer day's wark is done, and you come home, I go out o' your house. Sune as yer up an' away i' th' mornin', I come in and ridd up yer missus and wait on 'er, while the woman's in need of me."
God grant that he be not far away; I must eat my saddle, if it be so." "Have no fear, good sir," I answered; "you have seen and touched John Ridd. I am he, and not one likely to go beneath a bushel." "It would take a large bushel to hold thee, John Ridd. In the name of the King, His Majesty, Charles the Second, these presents!"
Ruth Huckaback is not married yet; although upon Uncle Reuben's death she came into all his property; except, indeed, 2000 pounds, which Uncle Ben, in his driest manner, bequeathed "to Sir John Ridd, the worshipful knight, for greasing of the testator's boots." And he left almost a mint of money, not from the mine, but from the shop, and the good use of usury.
Therefore, none of them could complain; and yet they were not satisfied; perhaps for want of complaining. * There are said to be no loach now in Lynn. This proves that John Ridd caught them all. For now the Doones, having driven back, as every one said, five hundred men though not thirty had ever fought with them were in such feather all round the country, that nothing was too good for them.
"Cousin Ridd, you may take it lightly," said Ruth, turning full upon me, "and very likely you are right, according to your nature" this was the only cutting thing the little soul ever said to me "but oh, Cousin Ridd, you have no idea of the pain you will leave behind you." "How can that be so, Ruth, when I am as good as ordered to be off the premises?"
'John Ridd, said the Lord Chief Justice, at last recovering a sort of dignity, yet daring Spank from the corners of his eyes to do so much as look at him, 'thou hast been shamefully used, John Ridd.
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