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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Ah, we all paid up we did that, an' we'n been waitin' for thee to look in yonder at Orme's! We was all expectin' a bit of a do, thou knows an' thou's never so much as coom nigh th' place. An' thou settled to get wed an' all, wi'out namin' it to nobry! It's scarce honest." Ted scratched his jaw reflectively; the argument seemed to touch him.
'Come, lass, it's as ill moanin' after what's past as it 'ud be for me t' fill my eyes wi' weepin' after t' humbugs as this little wench o' thine has grubbed up whilst we'n been talkin'. Why, there's not one on 'em left!
Eh, bless you for coomin'! I scarce reckoned he were wick, 'tis so long sin' we'n had a word of him." She was clasping the new-comer's hands now, and shaking them excitedly up and down, her eyes searching his face the while. "How is my lad?" she repeated. "He mun be a gradely mon now a gradely mon! Tis what he said hisself when he wur breeched. Dear o' me, I mind it well.
I'm noan comin' down again to-night. Daniel laughed the more at this, especially when he caught Charley's look of disappointment. 'Hearken how she's bolted her door. She'll noane come near us this night. Eh! but she's a stiff little 'un; she's been our only one, and we'n mostly let her have her own way.
"Oom huh; fou' yeahs is a mighty long time fu' a colo'd man to wait; but we'n he do wait dat long, hit's all de wuss we'n hit do come." "Pap bin wo'kin right stiddy at de brick-ya'd," said Patsy, in loyal defence against some vaguely implied accusation, "an' he done put some money in de bank." "Bad sign, bad sign," and Mrs. Gibson gave her head a fearsome shake.
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