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"Ah!" he said abruptly; "I cannot stay longer here, dreaming away the work-day hours in a fairy ring. I am going to town to-day by the next train." "Yoa are coming back?" "Of course, this evening. I left no address at my lodgings in London. There must be a large accumulation of letters; some, no doubt, from my father and mother. I am only going for them. Good-by.
I went forward at a bound, in a stupid rapture that made her shrink in alarm; but M'Iver lingered in the rear, with more discretion than my relations to the girl gave occasion for. "Friends! oh, am not I glad to see yoa?" she said simply, her wan face lighting up. Then she sat down on a hillock and wept in her hands.
"Ah!" he said abruptly; "I cannot stay longer here, dreaming away the work-day hours in a fairy ring. I am going to town to-day by the next train." "Yoa are coming back?" "Of course, this evening. I left no address at my lodgings in London. There must be a large accumulation of letters; some, no doubt, from my father and mother. I am only going for them. Good-by.
Abe was a very plain-spoken man, and sometimes used phrases which were anything but refined, but this was compensated for by their good sense. Then perhaps, when in conversation with some unconverted neighbour on the all-absorbing theme of religion, he would break out, "Aye, mun, yoa doan't know haa grand it feels being weshed, weshed i' th' blood of th' Lamb.
"Where's ta going?" someone asked. Sally was looking at him rather curiously, as if she could not understand his movements. "Why," said he, "doant yoa know it's my class noight?" "Well, what by that? they'll niver expect thee t'-noight." "Oh, but I mun goa."
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