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George but I know, ef yer wor to go fro house to house i this village it would be like tis in the Bible I've often thowt o them words 'Theer was not a house no, nary one! where there was not one dead." She hung her head again, muttering to herself. George made out with difficulty that she was going through one phantom scene after another of burning, wounds, and sudden death.
Look aboove! Following his eyes, she saw that he was gazing at a star. 'It ha' shined upon me, he said reverently, 'in my pain and trouble down below. It ha' shined into my mind. I ha' look'n at 't and thowt o' thee, Rachael, till the muddle in my mind have cleared awa, above a bit, I hope. If soom ha' been wantin' in unnerstan'in me better, I, too, ha' been wantin' in unnerstan'in them better.
When do you mean?" "I thowt as to-night'd do, 'bout seven, when they're beginning to lope about." "And you'd shoot some with that little gun of yours?" "Whisht! Who's got a gun? Nonsense!" "Ah, we know," cried Mercer. "But I mean farreting." "Wouldn't do," said Mercer decisively. "Bob Hopley would be sure to come." "Nay, he's going to Hastings to-day, and won't be back till ten o'clock."
I wouldn't change it for a golden sov, to every page." As he spoke, footsteps were heard approaching the door. With a startled air Molloy thrust the book into its place and sprang up. "See there, now!" he said remonstratively, "who'd ever ha' thowt that I'd come to jerk about like that?"
We run as hard as we could pelt to Dick's cottage by the ma'shes, and got inside and stood listenin' to heer if we were bein' follered. Dick says to me, says 'e, 'S'posen it wor the chap who murdered owd Mr. Glenthorpe at the Anchor? I thowt as much meself, but a' tried to laugh it off, and says to Dick, 'What for should it be him?
"I shipped wi' Skipper Isra'l Gooden, from Carbonear; the schooner was the Baccaloue, wi' forty men, all told. 'T was of a Sunday morn'n 'e 'ould sail, twel'th day o' March, wi' another schooner in company, the Sparrow. There was a many of us was n' too good, but we thowt wrong of 'e's takun the Lord's Day to 'e'sself.
After he had turned a few trowelfuls of soil he spoke exultantly to Dickon in his best Yorkshire. "Tha' said as tha'd have me walkin' about here same as other folk an' tha' said tha'd have me diggin'. I thowt tha' was just leein' to please me. This is only th' first day an' I've walked an' here I am diggin'." Ben Weatherstaff's mouth fell open again when he heard him, but he ended by chuckling.
"Ay, lass, and human natur be human natur, and it be no use your going agin it. If he ha been and ill treated the boy, and I don't doubt as he has, thou may'st argue all noight, but thou won't get me to say as oi blames him much if he has done it. Oi don't suppose as he meant to kill him not vor a moment. I should think hard of him if oi thowt as how he did.
Bayley hasn't preached a sermon this ten year wi'oot chivvyin Papists!" said Hubert from the door. "An yo'll not find yan o' them in his parish if yo were to hunt it wi' a lantern for a week o' Sundays. When I was a lad I thowt Romanists were a soart o' varmin. I awmost looked to see 'em nailed to t' barndoor, same as stoeats!"
Hawsomiver, aa niver thowt naw mair aboot it, nor mair did John, so ee needn't taak till we wur jest two mile from 'ere. An' ee's a gon' on sence! My! an' a larroping the poor beeast like onything! Mrs. Thornburgh stood aghast at the calmness of this audacious recital.
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