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She was going to say, "I've eaten it," but gran'father had so earnestly impressed on her mind the sinfulness of telling lies, that she felt constrained to hesitate, and, with a trembling lip, finished by saying she had eaten some of it. "And what has become of the rest, dear?" "Please, miss, she've putt it in 'er pocket," said "Imperence" promptly.
"How?" said Eustacia, with intense curiosity in her heavy eyes. "My uncle has been for five and twenty years the trusty man of a rich widow-lady who has a beautiful house facing the sea. This lady has become old and lame, and she wants a young company-keeper to read and sing to her, but can't get one to her mind to save her life, though she've advertised in the papers, and tried half a dozen.
An' 'tain't so very lonesome, neither; brave lot o' folks goes by now, in they new motor cars an' things not as 'twas in th' old days. She've a got company up 'ere. 'Twas a poor soul killed 'erself." "I see!" said Ashurst. "Cross-roads burial. I didn't know that custom was kept up." "Ah! but 'twas a main long time ago. Us 'ad a parson as was very God-fearin' then.
"She've been wonderful sick all winter, an' we been waitin' " "Fifteen, four," said the doctor; "fifteen, six " "Doctor," my father said, touching the man on the shoulder, while Jagger smiled some faint amusement, "does you hear?" It was suddenly very quiet in the cabin. "Fifteen, eight " said the doctor. My father's voice changed ominously. "Is you listenin', zur?" he asked.
"She've a'got more than she can do, I reckon," said an old man famous in the lobster line; "other a one of they is as big as she be, and two to one seemeth onfair odds. Wish her well out of it that's all as can be done." "Kelks, you're a fool," replied the ancient navyman, steadying his spy-glass upon a ledge of rock.
Richard, if she blinded you about the nerve she've got, it was somethin' she thought she ought to do for your sake, and I wish I'd been by to counsel her, poor blessed babe! And how much longer, now, can ye stay divided from that darlin'?" Richard paced up and down. "A father's will," urged Mrs. Berry, "that's a son's law; but he mustn't go again' the laws of his nature to do it."
She've been talking ever since of some one follerin' her. And then she calls out for her mother to come. Once or twice I thought I heard her callin' Master Terry to come and save her. I can't tell whether she was frightened or whether she fancied it. But she do cry out, poor little soul, in mortal terror of some one or something."
I mean I won't say as I took her out and run her on a rock." "But you did, sir." "Tell yer I didn't, Master Aleck; she've been tied up ever since you went away, and I've given her a thorough clean up." "And started a plank or two by jumping down upon her with your wooden legs." "Nay, I wouldn't be such a fool, sir. Of course if I did I should go through."
"They tell me as how Depper's wife ain't a-goin' to get over this here sickness she've got," she said, tucking in the edges of the whitey-brown paper upon the half-pound of moist sugar taken from the scales. "The doctor, he ha'n't put a name to her illness, but 'tis one as'll carry her off, he say." "A quarter pound o' butter," Dinah unmovedly said. "The best, please.
"She didn't leave it," he answered. "It left her. The Hospital's scat." "Eh?" "Bust sold up come to an end. Scougall's retired on the donations. He feathered his nest. And Miss Plinlimmon's gone down into Cornwall to live with a Major Brooks a kind of relation of hers, so far as I can make out. They tell me she've come into money." I had a question on my lips, but Mr. Jope interrupted.
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