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But you didn't see his face, with ten devils staring out of his eyes, when I took him." "Us'll watch and pray for him," answered Minnie. "My heart tells me the poor man won't fall again."
"Tom!" he faltered, "Tom, old chap! Hearten up a bit! Don't leave us! There's not one of us us'll think ill of ye! no, not if the law was to shut ye up for life! You was allus good to us poor folk an' poor folk aint as forgittin' o' kindness as rich. Stay an' help us along, Tom! you was allus brave an' strong an' hearty an' there's many of us wantin' comfort an' cheer, eh Tom?"
"Sha'n't thee go underground to-day, father?" says I, at last. He turned slowly round, and says he, "No, sonny. 'Reckon us'll climb skywards for a change." And with that, he took my hand, and pushing abroad the belfry door began to climb the stairway.
"I like to travel about fifty miles an hour," exclaimed Norman, "and it's three hundred miles to the Landing. We'll leave to-morrow morning at five o'clock and land on the heights opposite the town at eleven. One of us'll go across in the ferry " "Both of us," broke in Roy. "There's no need to watch the machine everybody's honest in this country."
"Us'll talk now. I be off by light. I 'edn' gwaine to stop no more. Faither sez I ban't no cheel o' his an' he doan't want to see my faace agen. Then he shaan't. I'll gaw to them as won't be 'shamed o' me: my mother's people." "Doan't 'e be in no tearin' hurry, Joan," said Mrs. Tregenza, thinking of the money.
If you're after that fish solely for breakfast, why, any of us'll be glad to lend you a hand; but then it don't count. How about that, Thad?" "You're correct, Giraffe," replied the other; "but I hope Bumpus lands his prize, all right, because fresh fish would taste fine to-morrow morn."
Lysander fell to work with an energy born of disgust for another's uselessness. "Seein' I'm here, I reckon nobody'll objeck to my payin' my respecks to the old woman," continued the newcomer, glancing from the crown of his hat to Lysander's impassive face with covert inquiry. "I guess if you c'n stand it, the rest of us'll have to," sneered his son-in-law.
"I thank God to hear you say so. You'm welcome to come along wi' me next Sunday if you mind to." "An' now us'll go up the Carn an' look out 'pon the land and see the sun sink." They left the churchyard together, climbed the neighboring eminence and stood silently at the top, their faces to the West. A great pervasive calm and stillness in the air heralded frost.
"That's wot I don't know, seeing that I'm not allowed aft now," says Jimmy. "One of us'll 'ave to make a dash for it when we get to London. And mind if there's any 'ankypanky on your part, Bill, I'll give the show away myself."
They had battened down the last spadeful of new-dug earth, and once again there was a storm-bred mound in Trewithen churchyard. The three old comrades stood together in silence looking down on it, making little or no attempt to hide the sorrow that was theirs. Then Tom Pemberthy said, drawing his hand across his tear-dimmed eyes: "Us'll miss ur simple wa-ays, sure 'nuff!"
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