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'I wish I'd come a bit sooner. I should like t' have seen you milk Black Nell, addressing Sylvia. 'Yo'd better come to-morrow e'en, and see what a hand she'll mak' on her, said Kester. 'To-morrow night I shall be far on my road back to Shields.
When yo' wur a little lass gatherin' sea-weed on th' sands I watched yo' when I wurafeared to speak afeared lest yo'd gi' me a sharp answer, fur yo' wur ready enow wi' 'em, wench. I've watched yo' fur hours when I wur a great lubberly lad, an' when yo' gettin' to be a woman it wur th' same thing. I watched yo' an' did yo' many a turn as yo' knowed nowt about.
"I'm prayin' he'll be beat," the boy answered moodily. "Eh, Davie, hoo can ye?" cried the girl, shocked. "It's easy to say, 'Eh, David," he snapped. "But if yo' lived along o' them two " he nodded toward the stream "'appen yo'd understand a bit.... 'Eh, David, indeed! I never did!" "I know it, lad," she said tenderly; and he was appeased.
His face had paled to the color of paper, and beads of perspiration stood out on his pasty forehead. "Yuh yuh got the drop, Mr. Wolf," he pleaded. "Don't kill me!" "Nevah mind," the Texan said softly. "When yo' die, it'll be on a rope. It's been waitin' fo' yo' a long time. But now I have some business with yo'. First thing, yo'd bettah let me keep that gun o' yo'n."
Then a thought as a'd been a bit hard upon him. An' says I, "A'm a widow-woman, and one as has getten but few friends:" for yo' see a were low about our Christopher's goin' away north; "so a'm forced-like to speak hard to folk; but a've made mysel' some stirabout for my supper; and if yo'd like t' share an' share about wi' me, it's but puttin' a sup more watter to 't, and God's blessing 'll be on 't, just as same as if 't were meal."
'She were staying at Bessy Dawson's, and she come here to see me she's as pretty a young lady as yo'd see on a summer's day; and a real lady, too, wi' a fortune. She didn't speak two words wi'out bringing in her husband's name, "the captain", as she called him. 'An' she come to see thee? said Kester, cocking his eye at Sylvia with the old shrewd look. 'That were summut queer, weren't it?
Alice and Mary stood by with eyes fixed on the poor child, whose struggles seemed to increase, till at last his mother said, with a choking voice "May happen* yo'd better take him, Alice; I believe my heart's wishing him a' this while, for I cannot, no, I cannot bring mysel to let my two childer go in one day; I cannot help longing to keep him, and yet he shan't suffer longer for me."
There's a vast o' fightin' i' th' Bible, and there's a deal of Methodists i' th' army; but to hear chapel folk talk yo'd think that soldierin' were next door, an' t'other side, to hangin'. I' their meetin's all their talk is o' fightin'. When Sammy Strother were stuck for summat to say in his prayers, he'd sing out, "Th' sword o' th' Lord and o' Gideon."
Yo'd come on a bit o' creakin' wood windlass like a well-head, an' you was let down i' th' bight of a rope, fendin' yoursen off the side wi' one hand, carryin' a candle stuck in a lump o' clay with t'other, an' clickin' hold of a rope with t'other hand. 'An' that's three of them, said Mulvaney. 'Must be a good climate in those parts. Learoyd took no heed.
Why, last winter I thought yo'd be such a woman when yo'd come to be one as my een had never looked upon, and this year, ever sin' I saw yo' i' the kitchen corner sitting crouching behind my uncle, I as good as swore I'd have yo' for wife, or never wed at all.
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