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Sit down and let me snip off your hair, and let me see you sham decently in a widow's cap to-morrow, or I'll leave the house. Whatten's come over Miss Faith, as used to be as mim a lady as ever was, to be taken by such as you, I dunnot know. Here! sit down with ye, and let me crop you."
On hearing the mare's shoes ring on the cobbles beside the gate the old shepherd, who had evidently been waiting, expectant of his master's return, came hirpling out in haste. Then seeing the strange figure seated behind his master he stood stock still in astonishment. 'Whatten's this gear ye ha' lifted the noo? he finally inquired, when he had found his voice.
Davenport in a low voice, "whatten's all I can do, to what he's done for me and mine? But, Mary, sure I can help ye, for you'll be busy wi' this journey." "Just help me wring these out, and then I'll take 'em to the mangle." So Mrs. Davenport became a listener to the conversation; and after a while joined in.
If it were the deuce's own scribble, and yo' axed me to read in it for yo'r sake, and th' oud gentleman's, I'd do it. Whatten's this, wench? I'm not going for to take yo'r brass, so dunnot think it. We've been great friends, 'bout the sound o' money passing between us. 'For the children for Boucher's children, said Margaret, hurriedly. 'They may need it. You've no right to refuse it for them.
'I was juist laughin', responded Meg, 'at oor venture, for here we are newly marrit an' I dinna even ken your name richtly; ye are a Robson, I ken, an' "Wudspurs" is your toname, but whatten's your hame name? 'My father and mother aye called me Si, responded Robson. 'Ye can call me that, an' ye like.
'Oh, Kester, I didn't think thou'd turn again' me, and me so friendless. It's as if I'd been doin' something wrong, and I have so striven to act as is best; there's mother as well as me to be thought on. 'Cannot yo' answer a question? said Kester, once more. 'Whatten's up that t' missus and yo'll not need bed and table, pots and pans?
'Oh, Kester, I didn't think thou'd turn again' me, and me so friendless. It's as if I'd been doin' something wrong, and I have so striven to act as is best; there's mother as well as me to be thought on. 'Cannot yo' answer a question? said Kester, once more. 'Whatten's up that t' missus and yo'll not need bed and table, pots and pans?
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