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There was a lack of practicalness in such faith in another man as expressed itself in the wistful, hesitant voice. "Did he say he'd give you work?" asked the first man who had questioned him, the Welshman Evans. "No. I dunnot think I dunnot think he'd know me if he seed me. Theer wur so many on us." Another exchange of glances, and then another question: "Where are you going to stay?"
Panuel's opposition to the scheme was so strong that I refused to urge the point. It was a very touching scene between him and Sinfi. 'You know what your mammy told you about you and the Gorgios, said he, with tears trickling down his cheeks. 'You know the dukkeripen said as you wur to beware o' Gorgios, because a Gorgio would come to the Kaulo Camloes as would break your heart.
A matter of twenty years, it wur. It was when I lost my little gal." "Where is 'oor 'ittle gal?" asked Dickie. "Blessed if I know," said Andrew, shaking his head mournfully; "but wherever she be, she ain't not to call a little gal now, missie. She wur jest five years old when I lost her, an' it's twenty years ago. That'll make her a young woman of twenty-five, yer see, missie, by this time."
No one's been to the pigs yet, and it wants but half an hour to milking." "We wur setting around for Grace Wickens to bring us out our tea," said Broadhurst. "You thought maybe she wouldn't know her way across the yard if you was on the other side of it? The tea ain't ready yet I tell you I haven't had any.
"Eigh! ey thowt he wur i' a strawnge fettle," replied Bess; "an so he be a lawyer fro' Lunnon, eh? Weel," she added, laughing, and displaying two ranges of very white teeth, "he'll remember Bess Whitaker, t' next time he comes to Pendle Forest." "And she'll remember me," rejoined Potts. "Neaw more sawce, mon," cried Bess, "or ey'n raddle thy boans again."
That there was a real idea in the old man's mind was considerably clearer than the logic by which he tried to bring it out. "Did you know parson that's gone, sir?" he went on. "No," I answered. "Oh, sir! he wur a good parson. Many's the time he come and sit at my son's bedside him that's dead and gone, sir for a long hour, on a Saturday night, too.
Furze talked about the university familiarly, so that, although her education had been slender, a university flavour clung to her, and the farmers round Eastthorpe would have been quite unable to determine the difference between her and a senior wrangler, if they had known what a senior wrangler was. "Ha," observed Mr. Gosford, when they were seated, "I wur sayin', Mrs.
"I kin tell yer whether it wur mounted, Cap'n," continued the hunter, "if yer'll let me slide down and take a squint at the critter's tracks." "It is out of our way. Perhaps you had better," I added, after a little reflection. "Raoul, you and Chane dismount and go with the sergeant. Hold their horses, Jack."
"Th' tide," blundered the speaker. "I wur tellin' him to look sharp, that's aw." The poor fellow moved restlessly. "Aye! aye!" he said. "Look sharp he mun do that. I didna think o' th' tide." And he shut his eyes again with a faint groan.
I didn't try to go any nearer the middle o' the log; but instead of that, I wriggled back until I wur right plum on the eend of it, an' could git no further. "Thur I sot for a good long spell 'ithout movin' hand or foot. I dasen't make a motion, as I wur afeard it mout tempt the varmint to attackt me.
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