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"All right," he answered cheerily, "let me know how you get on." When Allchin's heavy footsteps had echoed away down the stairs, Mrs. Hopper answered her master's call. "I suppose they have a little money to go on with?" Warburton inquired. "I mean, enough for a week or so." "Yes, I think they have that, sir. But I see how it'll be. My poor sister'll end in the work'us.
When a man's feelings has been too much for him, he'd better just take hisself off, and lie in the work'us till he dies." And then he again tendered the key. But the squire did not take the key, and so Hopkins went on. "I s'pose I'd better just see to the lights and the like of that, till you've suited yourself, Mr Dale.
'Yer know, Work'us, continued Noah, emboldened by Oliver's silence, and speaking in a jeering tone of affected pity: of all tones the most annoying: 'Yer know, Work'us, it can't be helped now; and of course yer couldn't help it then; and I am very sorry for it; and I'm sure we all are, and pity yer very much. But yer must know, Work'us, yer mother was a regular right-down bad 'un.
"I thought I should have swooned," she said. "And no wonder," replied the Bishop, "I'm quite sure I should have." Then he turned to us with a look of mingled amusement and concern. "Now what do you suppose I'm going to do with you Granfa?" "Oh, parson, don't 'ee send me back to the work'us! If I bide there any longer, 'twill break my fine spirit."
If I am hit, it will be hard lines with her; she and the young ones will have to bear up for the work'us, for there's no one will care for the smuggler's wife, as they call her." "But I hope you won't be killed, Ben," said Dick; "there's no reason why you should be more than any one else."
"She's got a heart as is big enough for three." Kate could not help smiling at the enthusiasm with which the little fellow spoke. "You seem fond of her," she said. "I'd be a bad 'un if I wasn't. She took me out of the work'us without character or nothing, and now she's a-educatin' of me. She sent me 'ere with a message?" "What was it?"
By what appeared, or rather by what did not appear, he had applied to some rich relation, and the rich relation had said to him: 'Much obliged! try the work'us. Then he wished to make use of his Greek, and Latin, and mathematics.
But, making Oliver cry, Noah attempted to be more facetious still; and in his attempt, did what many sometimes do to this day, when they want to be funny. He got rather personal. 'Work'us, said Noah, 'how's your mother? 'She's dead, replied Oliver; 'don't you say anything about her to me!
People passed by, on foot and in carriages, and little thought that the sad youth under the tree was the great-nephew of a late senator in the American Congress. Presently, I started to my feet, as I heard a gruff voice behind me from the field, crying out "What are you doing there, you young rascal? run away from the work'us, have ye? Tramp, or I'll set Blucher on ye!" And who was Blucher?
Aye, an' at the Work'us door she said to the fellow, said she, 'All my life I've longed to ride in a bridal chariot; an' though my only lover died of a decline when I was scarce twenty-two, I've done it at last, said she; 'an' now heaven an' airth can't undo it!" A heavy silence followed this anecdote, and then one or two of the women vented small disapproving coughs.
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