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'I am going to look for my friends, if I live, and then, may be, I may be able to repay you for your kindness to me, a poor, wretched wanderer on the face of God's earth. If you'll be pleased to listen whilst I have the strength, I will tell you my story. 'My mother was a Welshwoman, born in some part of South Wales; she was the daughter of a clergyman, and respectably brought up.
He soon found that the object of his wrath was a certain Welshwoman, named Rees, by her neighbours considered objectionable on the ground of witchcraft, against whom this much could with truth be urged, that she was so far from thinking it disreputable, that she took no pains to repudiate the imputation of it.
Jenny, though in most respects a true Welshwoman, is free from the ignorant superstition which forms so sad an ingredient in the character of the uneducated peasants of these mountain districts, and was grieved when she found that poor Old Moggy had become the victim of the gross superstition of her neighbours, by whom she is reputed to be a witch who has flown across the sea from distant parts for the purpose of taking possession of the wretched hovel on the mountain. `I do think, sir, said Jenny, `if the poor creature had had the power of flying, she'd have flown to a better sort of a place than this poor shed, scarcely fit to shelter a gipsy's donkey from a snow-storm.
I tried her on the subject. Her amazement was without a shadow of reserve. 'It 's Welsh, it's not English, she remarked. I knew no Welshwoman save Anna. 'Do you know the whole of his history? said she. Possibly one of the dozen unknown episodes in it might have furnished the clue, I agreed with her.
"Bartrand you have no ears, Welshwoman as you are!" retorted Terence O'Grady. "Subscription two guineas, for the Sorrows of Araminta," continued our heroine; but, looking up, she saw Betty Williams and the hackney-coachman making menacing faces and gestures at one another. "Fight it out in the passage, for Heaven's sake!" said Angelina; "if you must fight, fight out of my sight."
My mother grew rapidly worse, and I was transferred to another part of the building to make place for her. They thought my nursery was gayer for her, I suppose; but she could not live. She was beautiful when she was dead, and I cried bitterly. "The light one, the light one the heavy one to come," crooned the Welshwoman. And she was right.
It was good for the race ... kept up the quality of the breed! I shall have to think seriously about this...." "You'd better look out for a farmer's daughter while you're here," Henry suggested. "What! A Welshwoman! Good God, no!! My goodness, Quinny, you ought to bring that fellow, John Marsh, to Wales for a few months. That 'ud cure him of his Slop about nationality.
I gathered from him that he was a native of the Southdown country and a shepherd by profession; that he had been engaged by the squire of Porkington in Shropshire to look after his sheep, and that he had lived there a year or two, but becoming tired of his situation he had come to Llangollen, where he had married a Welshwoman and set up as a butcher.
She went over the house with me. "And how is the Woman of the Water?" I asked, trying to laugh a little. "Does she still play in the moonlight?" "She is hungry," answered the Welshwoman, in a low voice. "Hungry? Then we will feed her." I laughed. But old Judith turned very pale, and looked at me strangely. "Feed her?
An English girl would probably have spoken out at once with the splendid honesty characteristic of her nation, but Gwenda, being a thorough Welshwoman, acted differently.
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