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"Lord, Old Un!" exclaimed Simon, "who's a-talkin' o' fadin's an' churchyards? I don't like it let's talk o' summ'at else." "Simon," said the Ancient, shaking his head reprovingly, "ye be a good bye ah! a steady, dootiful lad ye be, I don't deny it; but the Lord aren't give you no imagination, which, arter all, you should be main thankful for; a imagination's a troublesome thing aren't it, Peter?"
"Be you quite sure as you aren't a dook?" "Quite sure." "Nor a earl?" "No, Ancient." "Not even a barrynet?" "No, Ancient." "Ah, well! you be a man, Peter, an' 'tis summ'at to ha' found a man that it be." And now he feebly beckoned us all nearer. "Children," said he, "I be a old an' ancient man I be goin' on across the river to wait for you my blessin' on ye.
Here George turned to look at me, and, looking, dropped his eyes and fumbled with his hands, while up under his tanned skin there crept a painful, burning crimson. "Peter!" said he. "Yes, George?" "I got summ'at more to tell 'ee summ'at as I never meant to tell to a soul; when you was down lyin' at my feet " "Yes, George?" "I I kicked 'ee once!" "Did you, George?"
But, catching sight of Mrs Boffin's wholesome face, she relented, and crouching down by the door and bending over her burden to hush it, said humbly: 'Maybe my fears has put me wrong. If they have so, tell me, and the good Lord forgive me! I'm quick to take this fright, I know, and my head is summ'at light with wearying and watching. 'There, there, there! returned Mrs Boffin. 'Come, come!
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