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"So I will," said Basset, who began to fancy he had found too much fault, and was unwilling to lose his ally; "so come along into Jenkins', and we'll take it on the spot. But you must give in, Tom, your observation was unfortunate" "Unfortunate for you," returned Tom; "but I guess Holden thought 'twasn't unfortunate for him. Howsomever, you'll let the old fellow slip now, won't you?"
To think of that fellow being dancing and capering at that Jezebel's house the night his baby was dying!" "Oh, but, pa, he didn't know it." "Know it? he ought to have known it! What business has a man to get a woman with a lot of babies round her, and then go capering off? 'Twasn't the way I did, Polly, you know, when our babies were young.
"G'long, Smiler," the driver said, and the horse went forward. The man leaned forward and raised his lamp to Jack's face. "I thawt 'twasn't Jim Brown's voice. Who be'st thou?" "Jack Simpson; I live along wi' Bill Haden." "Ay, ay, I know'st, I knew thy father, a good sort he was too. Be'st thy first day doon the pit?" "Ay," Jack said. "Foind it dark and lonesome, eh? Thou'lt get used to it soon."
She said 'twas her sharp eyes, and she didn't mean to steal, and 'twasn't your pockets, and she promised she'd give me half yes, she truly did, grandma." "Go, dear, and bring me my bonnet from the band-box in my bed-room closet." Then Mrs. Parlin folded the sheet she was making, put on her best shawl and bonnet, and kid gloves, and taking her sun umbrella, set out for a walk.
She came running downstairs, her eyes staring and blazing. 'Thalassa, dear Thalassa, for pity's sake let me out, she said half-sobbing. 'Oh, what did I come for? He's wicked wicked. Twasn't for me to say anything between father and daughter, so I just opened the door without a word, and went out with her." "What time did Sisily catch the wagonette?" "That's what I don't know.
But he did not tell quite so many stories in these days; that deep sunset had stolen even into his young heart, and whenever he felt inclined to say "I never, 'twasn't me, 'twasn't my fault," a tangle of dark curls rose before him, just as they had lain that night when he had not dared to move his eyes away from them.
Branning knew what she was about when she went to Squire Kinloch's, and his wife was 'most gone with consumption. "'Twasn't a mite strange that little Mildred took to her so kindly; plenty of women could find ways to please a child, if so be they could have such a chance to please themselves." The general opinion seemed to be that Mrs.
'Then 'twasn't him nor t'other I was thinking on, neither; and I'll be hanged but I think it will be Cormoran, cried Milly, with a thoughtful rap with her knuckle on the table. Precisely at this juncture a tapping came to the door. 'Come in, said I. And old L'Amour entered the room, with a courtesy. 'I came to tell Miss Quince her breakfast's ready, said the old lady.
'Twasn't that I loved her, but I don't go for to deny that she was good-looking, and she certainly did tickle my fancy considerable, and then when I thought of the tidy bit of silver that she would have from her father, I made up my mind that she would be a good enough match for me; but mind you, I never thought her straight I never yet was mistook in any character I ever studied carefully.
'Twasn't the leg I cared for: 'twas the not having another chance at those damned British rascals;" and the wooden leg itself would twitch and rap on the floor in his impatient indignation. One of Hetty's earliest recollections was of being led about the farm by this warm-hearted, irascible, old grandfather, whose wooden leg was a perpetual and unfathomable mystery to her.
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