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A kind old Quaker found and took me home; but though I was too weak to talk, I had my senses by that time, and knew what went on about me. Everything was in confusion, even in that well-ordered place; no surgeon could be got at first, and a flock of frightened women thee'd and thou'd one another over me, but hadn't wit enough to see that I was bleeding to death.
"Do you think there is no hope of your father relenting?" he asked, in a tone of despondency which anticipated the answer. "Father's very hard to move," said Moses; "and when mother and Asenath can't prevail on him, nobody else need try. I'm afraid thee must make up thy mind to the trial. I'm sorry to say it, Richard, but I think thee'd better go back to town."
He's alive, and he were here o' Tuesday no, Monday, was it? I cannot tell but he were here! 'A knowed as he weren't dead. Every one is a-speaking on it. But a didn't know as thee'd ha' seen him. A took comfort i' thinkin' as thou'd ha' been wi' thy mother a' t' time as he were i' t' place. 'Then he's gone? said Sylvia. 'Gone; ay, days past. As far as a know, he but stopped a' neet.
It was just light enough to discern the gloomy features of Black Thompson; and Stephen inquired fearlessly what he wanted with him. 'I thought thee'd never be coming, said Black Thompson impatiently. 'Lad, hast thee forgotten thy rights and thy wrongs, that thou comes to yonder wretched kennel whistling as if all the land belonged to thee?
When he reported the misfortune to his father, the old Quaker replied: "John, if thee'd gone to the right place of worship, thee'd have kept thy hat upon thy head." Lord Macaulay was accustomed to say that he got his "joviality" from his mother's family. If his power of humour was indeed of Quaker origin, he was rather ungrateful in the use to which he sometimes put it. Mr.
"Lud! we've been trying to wake thee this hour past; but 'twas sleep sleep!" "I'll get up, I tell you." "Thought thee'd ha' slept through the bed and right through to the floor," said the chambermaid by the door, tittering. "Unless you pack and go, I'll step out amongst you all!" Whereat they fled with mock squeals, calling out that the very thought made them blush: and left me to dress.
Fonsegue was so intimate with Barroux that he thee'd and thou'd him, and for ten years had been supporting him in his newspaper, having precisely the same views, the same political religion. But with a smash-up threatening, he doubtless realised, thanks to his wonderfully keen scent, that he must change his friendships if he did not wish to remain under the ruins himself.
If thee'd been stealing sheep Emily Warren wouldn't laugh at thee so approvingly. I'm finding out that she rather likes the people she laughs at. At least, I take that view, for she laughs at me a great deal. I knew from Emily Warren's laugh that thee hadn't anything very bad to tell mother." "I admit that, at the time, I enjoyed being laughed at a rather rare experience."
Besides, how can we explain sympathies? Why does a certain peculiarity, a certain imperfection, indifferent or hateful in one person, prove a fascination in another? That which we call the thunderbolt is true as regards all the passions. Before the month was over they "thou'd" and "thee'd" each other. Frequently they came to see each other at their respective offices.
He attached no particular importance to it, but in this direction his knowledge was continually extended; he "thee'd and thou'd" poor people from the first moment, and knew the mournful history of every cottage. And all he saw and heard was like a weary refrain it spoke of the same eternally unalterable longing and the same defeats.
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