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Now, if I'm to be a gradely servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, I must be an honest man I must pay my way if I can; but I can't pay at all if my brass is to go for the drink and you know, Alice, you can't deny it, that you'd spend the brass in drink if I gave it yourself.
I hope you'll keep gradely teetottal, for the drink's a cheating and lying thing." "I hope so too," said Frank, and then the conversation dropped. But now he remembered that the wine, beer, and spirits which he had ordered were to come that very evening. What was he to do?
'Sir, the Lincolnshire man answered, 'you say 'tis a folly to make small holes in a pikehead. But for me 'tis the greatest of ornaments. Give you, it weakens the pikehead; but 'tis a gradely ornament. 'Ornaments be folly, the young Poins reiterated. 'Sir, the Lincolnshire man answered again, 'there is the goodliest folly that ever was.
There'll be somebody after this i'th mornin'. An' they had some rare fun th' next day, afore they geet these things swapt to their gradely places. However, th' last thing o' Saturday neet th' weshin'-machine wur brought up fro th' clerk's, an' th' organ wur takken to th' chapel." "Well, well," said th' owd woman; "they geet 'em reet at the end of o', then?"
I never got the chance before, but theer he lays yon, fast by the leg! If I could ha' made shift to walk this year he could never ha' cotched me up eh, I'd ha' had a gradely laugh at him." "Well, well, ye'll happen ha' th' best on't another time," said Mrs. Tyrer soothingly. "Happen he'll noan be able to walk no more next year nor this happen he'll noan be here!
It had needed no call to bring her to his side; some instinct seemed to have warned her of his coming, and she had caught sight of him while still a long way off and hastened towards him as he approached. She uttered a little cry of joy as her eyes fell upon her gift. "Eh! ye've got it on! It looks gradely." "It looks gradely, does it?" returned John grimly.
Ay, wouldn't that be a rare game?" A roar of laughter followed this speech. But Johnson's blood was up. "And why shouldn't I join the teetottallers if I've a mind?" he cried. "I don't see what good the drink's done to me nor mine. And as for Ned Brierley, he's a gradely Christian. I've given him nothing afore but foul words; but I'll give him no more."
"Fower-in-hand, and leaders in staable! Sick, likely, or more gradely stuff," said Dick, musing aloud. Amaryllis, whose eyes were on the signboard, started as if a stranger had spoken at her side. She looked quickly in his face, and found it so altered in expression that she knew the words had come from his lips. "Oh, Dick!" she whispered. "You're wonderful. But whatever shall I do?
You see I didn't fairly know where I was, so I couldn't tell him how lang I'd bin theer. So I says to him: 'Sithee, Abe, is this Roundhay Park? "'Raandhay Park, says Abe. You see Abe allus talked a bit broad. He couldn't talk gradely English same as you an' me. 'Twere all along o' him livin' wi' them Leeds loiners up at Hunslet Carr. 'Raandhay Park! he says.
Those among his cronies who were in the secret of the wager considered this gravity affected, and part of the joke; and greeted him hilariously on quitting the church. "Well done, owd bird! Thou's lost no time as how 'tis." "Ah," replied Ted, still solemn, "I haven't lost mich time." "Well, thou's won th' bet i' gradely style!
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