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Blenkiron came out and looked at him sulkily. "I'll shoe t' maare," he said, "but yo'll stand outside t' smithy, Jim Greatorex." For answer Jim rode the mare into the smithy and dismounted there. Then Blenkiron spoke. "You'd best 'ave staayed where yo' were. But yo've coom in an' yo' s'all 'ave a bit o' my toongue. To-morra's yore weddin' day, I 'ear?"
Jim Greatorex had glamour for her, less on his own account than as a man in whom Rowcliffe was interested. "You'd think it a bit loansoom, wouldn' yo', ef yo' staayed in it yeear in and yeear out?" "I don't know," said Alice doubtfully. "Perhaps a little," she ventured, encouraged by Greatorex's indulgent smile. "An' loansoom it is," said Greatorex dismally.
"What is it, Ally? What is it, loove?" She looked up at him. "I don't know, Jim. But I think I'm afraid." "What are you afraid of?" She thought a moment. "I'm afraid of father." "Yo med bae ef yo staayed with him. Thot's why I want yo t' coom to mae." He looked at her. "'Tisn' thot yo're afraid of. 'Tis soomthin' alse thot yo wawn't tall mae." "Well I think I'm a little bit afraid of this house.
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