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Shaking his head moodily, he took from his hat his neverfailing snuff-box, but, having extracted a pinch, paused suddenly in the act of inhaling it, to stare at me very hard. "But," said he, in a more hopeful tone, "but your face be all bruised an' swole up, to be sure, Peter." "Is it, Ancient?" "Ah! that it be that it be," he cried, his eyes brightening, "an' your thumb all bandaged tu."
"And how did she go, Cookie-Bird Pop?" inquired Lucille politely, with round eyes, considering over the top of the big lemonade-flagon as it rose again to her determined little mouth. "No, Miss Lucy," replied Cook severely. "Pop she did not. She swole ... swole and swole." "You mean 'swelled, Cookoo," corrected Lucille, inclined to be a little didactic and corrective at the age of ten.
So, sir, wife an' me we was took into the church, then an' there. We wouldn't a yielded to him, thoo an' thoo, that-a-way ag'in ef his little foot hadn't a' been so swole, an' he maybe takin' his death o' cold settin' out in the po'in'-down rain; but things bein' as they was, we went thoo it with all due respects.
"But Lord, young master, they do ha' used ye ill your poor face, all bruised and swole it be!" "Which it be!" nodded Roger. "Likewise cut! Which be ill for 'ee though like Godby here I won't say but what I moughtn't ha' took a heave at ye, had I been there, it being nat'ral-like to heave things at such times, d'ye see?" "Very natural!" says I.
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