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The young man burst out laughing, instead of reprimanding Tobias, who maintained his sulky impassiveness of face. "Why, zor, I be gardener now, too: yaäs I be, to save the wages. And he's gone clean mazed about that garden yaäs, I think.
He's gettin' worse and worse, that's sure: if yü be for giving me half a crown, like, or any one that comes to the house, he finds it out and stops it out o' my wages: yes, he does, zor, the old fule!" "Tobias, be a little more respectful to my uncle, if you please." "Why, zor, yü knaw en well enough," said the man in the same surly fashion.
When Trelyon arrived late one evening at Penzance he was surprised to find his uncle's coachman awaiting him at the station: "What's the matter, Tobias? Is the old gentleman going to die? You don't mean to say you are here for me?" "Yaäs, zor, I be," said the little old man with no great courtesy. "Then he is going to die if he sends out his horse at this time o' night.
And his violet glass for the cucumbers: he burned en up to once, although 'twere fine to hear'n talk about the sunlight and the rays and such nonsenses. He be a strange mahn, zor, and a dahmned close'n with his penny-pieces, Christian and all as he calls his-sen. There's Miss Juliott, zor, she's go-in' to get married, I suppose; and when she goes no one 'll dare spake to 'n.
"And I'll tell yü this, Maäster Harry, if yü be after dinner with en, and he has a bottle o' poort wine that he puts on the mantelpiece, and he says to yü to let that aloän, vor 'tis a medicine-zart o' wine, don't yü heed en, but have that wine. 'Tis the real old poort wine, zor, that yür vather gied en the dahmned old pagan!"
"If yü baint too tired, zor, vor to look over the accounts, 'tis all theear but the pultry that Mr. "Good Heavens, Mrs. Cornish!" said he, "do you think I am going to look over a lot of grocers' bills?" Mrs.
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