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But not a word of the kind at Folking, nor yet in Netherden; nor yet at Utterden, Mr. Halfacre. But all this is over, and we do hope that you, ma'am, and the young squoire 'll live long, and the young 'un of all long after we are gone to our rest, and that you'll be as fond of Folking as Folking is of you.
"Station yourselves on the bank, fifty paces apart," cried Crouch; "run, run, or yo'n be too late, an' strike os quick os leet if yo've a chance. Stay wheere you are, squoire," he added, to Nicholas. "Yo canna be better placed." All was now animation and excitement.
'I wonder it did not occur to you that Ruby would go there. John Crumb scratched his head, as though acknowledging the shortcoming of his own intellect. 'Of course if she was to go to London it was the proper thing for her to do. 'I knew she'd do the thing as was right. I said that all along. Darned if I didn't. You ask Mixet, squoire, him as is baker down Bardsey Lane.
While these things passed through my mind rapidly, I heard my friend beneath recommence, for the third time, the air from which his own name had been probably adopted, when he was interrupted by his rustic auditors. 'If thou canst play no other spring but that, mon, ho hadst best put up ho's pipes and be jogging. Squoire will be back anon, or Master Nixon, and we'll see who will pay poiper then.
"There is only one person who could give them such information," cried Nicholas; "but I cannot, will not suspect him." "If yor're thinkin' o' Lawrence Fogg, yo're na far wide o' th' mark, squoire," replied Nance. "What! Fogg leagued with robbers impossible!" exclaimed Nicholas.
"Tak heed whot yo dun, squoire. If ey speak at aw, ey shan speak out, and to some purpose, ey'n warrant ye. If ey ge to Lonkester Castle, ey winna ge alone. Wan o' yer friends shan ge wi' me." "Cursed villain! I guess thy meaning," replied Nicholas; "but thy vindictive purposes will be frustrated.
"And the worst of it is," continued the squire new lights breaking upon him, "I shall be liable for all the sums he has received. He was my confidential agent, and the lenders will come upon me. It must be six or seven hundred pounds that he has obtained in this nefarious way. Zounds! I shall go mad." "Yo wur to blame fo' trustin him, squoire," rejoined Nance.
"Ha' done wi' ye, squoire," cried Bess, who, however, did not look very seriously offended by the liberty. "By my faith, your lips are so sweet that I must have another," cried Nicholas. "I tell you what, Bess, you're the finest woman in Lancashire, and you owe it to the county to get married." "Whoy so?" said Bess. "Because it would be a pity to lose the breed," replied Nicholas.
"There yo're wrong, squoire fo' unluckily they aw did," replied Nance, with a scarcely-suppressed laugh. "Roger Nowell gied him one hundred; Tummus Whitaker of Holme, another; Ruchot Parker o' Browsholme, another. An more i' th' same way." "And the rascal pocketed it all, and never brought me back one farthing," cried Nicholas, in a transport of rage.
And more nor that, Sal told me that on the night when the Squoire wur buried, she seed Tom a-draggin' the Squoire's body along the churchyard to the cliff; only she never spoke on it at the time.
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