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Nobody, of course, could do it but yer own self, I'm sure, grudgingly admitted his mother, when success became sure. 'The idea! That's so like you, mother! laughed Jerry, as he softly tickled the head of the bullfinch he had retained as a gift for Miss Theedory out of the first and best batch. 'You're that conceited, you think that your own son can do all things better than other folk.
'But I make no doubt she've her peck o' troubles, too, what with them limbs of young brothers, and the captain so uplifted-like that he can't give a hand to help her rule 'em. Yes, Miss Theedory has no easy life of it, though she be a born lady. 'Tis a world o' ups and downs, this is. 'Hilloa, Binks! Oh, I say! The old man wheeled round to find Geoff and Alick had unexpectedly returned.
But b'ys is a handful, Miss Theedory, as nobody should know better than yourself. Now, my Ned his heart's in the right place; it's his head as is the trouble. He has crammed hisself with trash of foring travel until the b'y is fair crazed to be off and out into the world. That's what it is! 'I shouldn't call books of travels trash, said Theo slowly. 'It wouldn't be quite fair nor true.
Not only in her own person did this dainty gentlewoman carry out her theory, but she looked for it in the persons of her visitors. Theo invariably respected her wishes by appearing before her trim and trig. 'Tis jes' they rheumatics, Miss Theedory! answered Binks cheerfully, for all the world as if his aches and pains were so many honours. 'But there, what's 'ee to expec' at sixty-seven?
'Thank ye, Miss Theedory; yes, I'll come, was the mumbled reply; and in an agony of shame Ned shambled out of the cottage, making believe to be busy over the tangled brown nets lying in front of the door. He was a capable lad enough, was Ned, and the Fletchers looked upon him as a promising hand already in the boat.
God give 'em smooth seas to sail over! added the old man under his breath, as he watched the captain's daughters cross the lawn above. Time was, far back in years, when Binks had watched with pride such another maiden as 'Miss Theedory, the daughter God had given, or, rather, had lent, for a little while, to the parents who idolised her. The frosts of death nipped the human flower.
'What on earth is that to you? loftily demanded Alick, resenting both the questions and the mention of his sister's name, as brothers will. 'Why, 'tis this to me! rejoined Ned grimly, and standing square. 'I ain't a-goin' to have Miss Theedory lookin' at me through an' through, an' a-sayin', "Ned," she'll say, "why ever did'ee lead away my brother to do wrong?" I couldn't stand that, muster!
'Nothin' o' the sort! struck in a dissentient voice, which belonged to Goody Dempster herself. 'There's none too good to live, seein' as life is a great gift that can only come from the Lord Himself. He gives, and He takes away, that's how we've got to look at things. And, please God, He will see fit to raise up Miss Theedory among us again, hale and sound. She's one as could be ill spared.
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