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"They was married three months, an' 'twas harvest time come round, an' I in his vield a-gleanin'. For I was suffered near to that extent, seem' that the cottage here had been my fathers', an' was mine, an' out o't they culdn' turn me.
And him zat on a style, long zide the tharn bush, and 'a took 'ee's gun, and 'a zays, 'A'll shute vust man are maid as cumes acrust thiccy vield, 'a zays. And us knowed 'un wude du 't tu. And 'un barred the gate, and there t'was." He laughed till the tears ran down his face, brown as gingerbread, and wrinkled as a monkey's. "Mr. Crewys is in a hurry, Jack," said Sarah.
They do not talk Pope, or Milton, or Addison; they 'knaaws, 'they be a-gwoin thur, it's a 'geat, and a 'vield, and a 'vurrow. These are the old faces you see, the same old powers are at work to fashion them. Heavy, blind blows of the Wind, the Rain, Frost, and Heat, have beaten up their faces in rude repousse work.
Shew me the poet the historian the orator, and I will vield to none of you; no, not to Madeline herself in homage of their genius: but the mere creature of books the dry and sterile collector of other men's learning no no. What should I admire in such a machine of literature, except a waste of perseverance? And Madeline calls him handsome too!"
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