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He wanted t' take part in a show down t' the church. But his time had come; an' the curtain went down on him out there alone in his water-sogged boots an' heavy iler coat! Tom Davis was born fur misfortin as the sparks fly up'ard. Him, with them boots an' ilers on, in a gale sich as that war!" "Davy, what was that?" Janet clung to the keeper, her eyes dark and fear-filled.
I haven't got a oath to swear how mad I was. Fancy yourselves in my place. I love old Bob. I've drunk with him; I owe him obligations from since I was a boy up'ard; I don't know a better than Bob in all England. And there he was: and says to Mr.
"The man must face sorrer same as what us all have got to, Mrs. Tregenza. Some gets more, some gets less, as the sparks fly up'ard. Joe Noy's got religion tu." Mary spoke the last words with some bitterness, which she noted too late and set against herself for a sin. "Oh, my dear sawl," said Mrs. Tregenza, looking round nervously, as though she feared the shadow of her husband might be listening.
He sat silent for a moment, his head resting on his hand, his elbow on the table, and his eyes on the books before him. "A book," he said louder, "is a door in, and therefore a door out. I see old Sir Up'ard," he went on, closing his eyes, "and my heart swells with love to him: what world is he in?" "The world of your heart!" I replied; " that is, the idea of him is there."
The sea-weed was up'ard of six feet high, tufted on the top with a sort o' thing you might a'most fancy was flowers. The colours, too, was bright. Among the branches o' this submarine forest, or grove, small lobsters, an' shrimps, an' other sorts o' shell-fish, were doin' dooty as birds hoppin' from one branch to another, an' creepin' about in all directions.
That gentleman, however," he added, pointing to the portrait, "old Sir Up'ard, his people called him, was in his day a friend of mine yet more intimate than ever your grandfather became." Then at length I began to think the interview a strange one. But in truth it was hardly stranger that my visitor should remember Sir Upward, than that he should have been my great-grandfather's librarian!
Ess, indeed, a religious fire, so to say; an' I warrant the prophet sat along just such another when he said man was born to trouble sure as the sparks fly up'ard."
That I should have been so near him, and not know!" "And turn your back on him!" corrected the raven. "I would have lain down at once had I known!" "I doubt it. Had you been ready to lie down, you would have known him! Old Sir Up'ard," he went on, "and your twice great-grandfather, both are up and away long ago.
I haven't got a oath to swear how mad I was. Fancy yourselves in my place. I love old Bob. I've drunk with him; I owe him obligations from since I was a boy up'ard; I don't know a better than Bob in all England. And there he was: and says to Mr.
'No, Sir, up'ard of three years ago, but all the rest is hearty. And in the matter o readin', Sir, said Toodle, ducking again, as if to remind Mr Dombey of what had passed between them on that subject long ago, 'them boys o' mine, they learned me, among 'em, arter all. They've made a wery tolerable scholar of me, Sir, them boys. 'Come, Major! said Mr Dombey.
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