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"Yes, I must go. I think so I hope so!" She checked herself. "But I'll wrap up." "Mrs. Fountain's nobbut sadly, I unnerstan?" "She's rather better again. But I must go to-morrow. Daffady, Cousin Elizabeth won't forget to bring up the letters?" "I niver knew her du sich a thing as thattens," said Daffady, with caution. "And do you happen to know whether Mr. Bayley is coming to supper?"
And I daur say" she lifted her voice fiercely "I daur say she took yo' wi' her, an it's along o' thattens as yo're coom to spy on us oop here?" Laura sprang up. "Me!" she said indignantly. "You think I'm a Catholic and a spy? How kind of you! But of course you don't know anything about my father, nor how he brought me up.
"Yo see, it goes agen mother to be shakin hands wi' yan that's livin wi' Papists and Misther Helbeck by the bargain. So wheniver mother talks aboot Amorites or Jesubites, or any o' thattens, she nobbut means Papist Romanists as our minister coes 'em. He's every bit as bad as her. He would as lief shake hands wi' Mr. Helbeck as wi' the owd 'un!" "I'll uphowd ye Mr.
He could hear the old man's plaintive cogitations over the strange experience which had blanched his hair and beard and brought him a visible step nearer to his end. "Soombody towd my owd woman tudther day, Misther Helbeck, at yoong Mason o' t' Browhead had been i' th' park that neet. Mappen tha'll tell me it was soom gell body he'd been coortin. Noa! he doan't gaa about wi' the likes o' thattens!
Thattens might dëa for a beginnin'; while soom o' these houses were coomin' doon." Lydia turned eagerly to Faversham. "Couldn't that be done some of the families with young children that are not yet attacked?" Her eyes hung on him. He shook his head. He had already proposed something of the sort to Melrose. It had been vetoed. The men watched him.
A tried ta hit 'em all baith gert an lile." There was a pause, then he added placidly: "A likely suden't suit them varra weel. Theer was a mon beside me, as pooed me down afoor a'd hofe doon." "Tha sudna taak o' 'paid preests, Daffady," said Mrs. Mason severely. "Tha doosna understand nowt o' thattens."
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