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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Wa-al, I knaws you said I warn't to take neither wan; but Jerrem he coaxes and persuades, and says you ain't to knaw nawthin' about it, and 'tain't nawthin' in it, only 'cos he'd a got a letter fra' she to Guernsey, and this was t' answer; and then I knawed, 'cos I seed em, that they was sweetheartin' and that, and "
Quinn, the man I chose for ye, an' I catch ye sweetheartin' an' carryin' on wid that ploughboy there, demanin' yourself altogether. Sure nobody could be expected to stand that. I won't stand it anyhow. Out they go, and off the whole o' them may march."
"The mistress is a bit sweet in that quarter, eh?" whispered a customer with a jerk of the head and a wink to Hannah the waitress, whom Mrs. Fenton had brought with her from Bedfordbury. "I should just think she was," returned the girl contemptuously. "It makes one sick. She ought to be a done with sweetheartin'." "A woman's never too old for that, my girl, as you'll find when you're her age.
'A sweetheartin'? demanded one of the bystanders, and there was a laugh. Constance heard the tones and vulgar laugh, though not the words, and she was in such a panic as she hurried down the steps that she did not stop to look out for a cab.
"She ain't finished her dinner!" breathlessly proclaimed a long- legged girl of about ten, who had run after the child, being one of her numerous sisters; "Mother said she was to come back straight." "I s'ant go back!" declared Ipsie defiantly; "Zozey and me's sweetheartin'!" Old Josey chuckled. "That's so! So we be!" he said tranquilly; "Come along little lass! Come along!"
But abruptly that cool and disconcerting vein of ironic calm left him and he bent his head with the sullen and smouldering eyes of a vicious bull. "But be thet es hit may. I claims thet ye kain't stand out erginst my sweetheartin' ef ye trusts yoreself ter see me. You claims contrariwise, but ye don't dast test yore theory.
And that is the way I am here, because I shipped at once aboard the Betty Sharp, for fear I might be copped and put in choky by the old fiend." "Have you heard from your sweetheart since?" asked one of the ladies. "No," said Jack the boatswain; "nor I don't want to. I'll soon get another where they knows how to treat genuine sweetheartin'." Jim Leigh at this point said
Though her time was evidently precious, she could not resist the temptation of listening to praises of herself. "I know you're above me, Miss Sarah. You're a lady, but I love yer, I do, and you drives me wild with yer tricks." "Do I?" "Do yer? Yes, yer do. What did yer come an' make up to me for, and then go sweetheartin' with them others?" "What others?"
'Axed Nosey Nickel and Gutty Weazel to meet you, continued he, looking at the little 'dinner-for-two' table; 'but Nosey's gone wrong in a tooth, and Gutty's away sweetheartin'. However, we'll be very cosy and jolly together; and if you want to wash your hands, or anything afore dinner, I'll show you your bedroom, continued he, backing Sponge across the staircase landing to where a couple of little black doors opened into rooms, formed by dividing what had been the duplicate of the sitting-room into two.
Sitting still so much more than I'm used lately, with the baby, puts all sorts of foolishness into my head, and when you knocked just now it gave me quite a start, for the smell of the laylocks took me right back to the days when we were sweetheartin'." "How is Jem?" asked Mrs Leigh, glancing at a gun which stood in the chimney corner. "He's well, ma'am, thank you, but out early and home late.
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