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He hesitated a moment, evidently as to whether he should announce her; and then, stepping forward, he cleared his throat. "Muster Melrose, theer's soom one as wants to speak to you!" "What do you mean, you old fool!" said a deep, angry voice on the other side of a great lacquer screen; "didn't I tell you I wasn't to be disturbed?" Felicia walked round the screen.
Thattens might dëa for a beginnin'; while soom o' these houses were coomin' doon." Lydia turned eagerly to Faversham. "Couldn't that be done some of the families with young children that are not yet attacked?" Her eyes hung on him. He shook his head. He had already proposed something of the sort to Melrose. It had been vetoed. The men watched him.
Boden turned a humorous eye, first to the great house basking in the sunshine, then to his hostess. "Not yet. But you're doomed. As the old Yorkshireman said to his son, when they were watching the triumphs of a lion-tamer in the travelling menagerie that 'genelman's to be wooried soom day. When the real Armageddon comes, it'll not find you in possession. You'll have gone down long before."
Making a dress was a simple matter in those and Marta promised: "Yah, soom day ven I one have, shall I it sew." Meanwhile, Annette was quaffing deep, soul-satisfying draughts in the mere contempt of the yellow, red, green, and blue glories in which was soon to appear in public.
"Well, you black devil," he began, as he twisted and turned the much-bepatched harness, "you doin' soom work now! All you' life you havin' mooch good times! Eet is not for thee fun thot you live, you know?" he went on, academically, continuing to disentangle the harness. "Eet is for thee work thot you live! Work thot's thee answer!"
Ye can have t' large bedroom in t' front, and I'll move ower to what used to be my brother Jake's room. Ye knaw I've never had no opinion of t' girl, but I'll do what's right by her, ef I break my sperrit in t' doin' on't. I'll mak' t' girl welcome here: I'll stand by her proper-like: mebbe I'll finish by findin' soom good in her. But from this day forward, Tony, ye're na son o' mine.
But, still and on, I sair misdoot I'm better noo than at the stert. Sae hearken to me, lads, It's truth I maintain: Man's works are but rags, for I ken by my ain. I hae a name for decent trade: I'll wager a' the countryside Wad sweer nae trustier man was made, The ford to soom, the bent to bide.
"But bain't 'ee got larning?" the miner said. "Thou canst read and write foine, which is more nor I can do and what dost want more?" "Oi'm a going to get larning," Jack said again, steadily repeating the formula, "and oi'm gwine soom day to be a manager." Bill Haden stared at the boy and then burst into a fit of laughter. "Well, this bangs a'." Mrs. Haden was as surprised but more sympathetic.
There's plenty as done like the strike, my lady, but they dursent say so they'd be afeard o' losin the skin off their backs, for soom o' them lads o' Burrows's is a routin rough lot as done keer what they doos to a mon, an yo canna exspeck a quiet body to stan up agen 'em.
Ancrum in school? began Reuben, affecting a brisk manner, oddly unlike him. 'Naw. It wor Brother Winterbotham from Halifax, or soom sich name. 'Wor he edifyin, Davy? 'He wor he wor a leather-yed, said David, with sudden energy, and, taking up a stone again, he flung it at a tree trunk opposite, with a certain vindictiveness as though Brother Winterbotham were sitting there.
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