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So his mother thumped him, and he cried melodiously. 'Hold your noise do you naughty creetur! said Mrs. Bardell. 'Yes; don't worrit your poor mother, said Mrs. Sanders. 'She's quite enough to worrit her, as it is, without you, Tommy, said Mrs. Cluppins, with sympathising resignation. 'Ah! worse luck, poor lamb! said Mrs. Sanders.
'I have not worn anybody's life away, said Peggotty, 'I am thankful to think! No, Mr. Murdstone, I have not worrited and frightened any sweet creetur to an early grave!
The breakfast was ready to be served and this little woman was pottering about, muttering to herself a continual complaining phrase: "Oh, my back and oh, my bones!" She smiled on Ruth and patted her hand as the girl sat down beside her at the table. "Seems like we'd be lost without our pretty leetle creetur about," said Aunt Alvirah. "I don't see what the old house will do without her."
But when work won't maintain me like a human creetur; when my living is so bad, that I am Hungry, out of doors and in; when I see a whole working life begin that way, go on that way, and end that way, without a chance or change; then I say to the gentlefolks "Keep away from me! Let my cottage be. My doors is dark enough without your darkening of 'em more.
I haven't long to remain; it's no great matter. As he meekly shook his poor, grey head, and thanked old Martin in these words, Mrs Gamp, now entirely in the room, was affected to tears. 'The mercy as it is! she said, 'as sech a dear, good, reverend creetur never got into the clutches of Betsey Prig, which but for me he would have done, undoubted; facts bein' stubborn and not easy drove!
Poor creetur, she might ha' filled all the tea-pots in the house vith vills, and not have inconwenienced herself neither, for she took wery little of anythin' in that vay lately, 'cept on the temperance nights, ven they just laid a foundation o' tea to put the spirits atop on! 'What does it say? inquired Sam. 'Jist vot I told you, my boy, rejoined his parent.
I can't get over thinkin' what a ridickerlus thing it is fur half of Ameriky, a'most, to turn out jest to see a baby that's brought acrost from where Columbus used to live! Jest as if a Spanish baby was a-goin' to enjoy sech a crowd as this! One thing's certain, I ain't goin' to wait; if the pore leetle creetur is half as tired's I be, it'll want a nap fust thing! Come on, pa!
Dar's de Spirit, He'll give it to 'em; and ef Mass'r James is called an' took, depend upon it de Lord has got him ready, course He has, so don't ye go to layin' on yer poor heart what no mortal creetur can live under; 'cause, as we's got to live in dis yer world, it's quite clar de Lord must ha' fixed it so we can; and ef tings was as some folks suppose, why, we couldn't live, and dar wouldn't be no sense in anyting dat goes on."
I HAVE heerd the neighbours make remark as some one as they was acquainted with, was a poor good-natur'd mean-spirited creetur, as went out fishing for a wife one day, and caught a Tartar. Of course I never to my knowledge see the poor person himself. Nor did you neither, mim ho no. I wonder who it can be don't you, mim? No doubt you do, mim. Ho yes. He he he!
"Well, I'm glad to see you," she said, offering him a hand in a much darned cotton glove that had once been black. "I was right sorry to see Mr. West go, for he was a right good teacher, and as harmless, inoffensive a creetur as ever lived. But I always told him every time I laid eyes on him that he was in consumption, if ever a man was.
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