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Updated: July 10, 2025
"What might that ha' been?" "That she used to have a pound o' the best rolled butter a week, regular as clockwork, from Dairyman Viney's for herself, as well as just so much salted for the helping girl, and the 'ooman she calls in; but now the same quantity d'last her three weeks, and then 'tis thoughted she throws it away sour." "Finish doing the emmets, and carry the bag home-along."
'A fine day. Then the second time I met en was full-buff in town street, when my breeches were tore into a long strent by getting through a copse of thorns and brimbles for a short cut home-along; and not wanting to disgrace the man by spaking in that state, I fixed my eye on the weathercock to let en pass me as a stranger. But no: 'How d'ye do, Reuben? says he, right hearty, and shook my hand.
Upon the ledge of the window he discovered it when he returned, and read the message at a glance: "Don't you nor mother fear nothing for me, nor seek me out, for it would be vain. I'm well, and I'm so happy as ever I shall be, and perhaps I'll come home-along some day.
New resolution showed in his features; he dropped her hand which he had been holding and turned back towards Poussette's. "You are right, as usual," he said soberly. "There's no need for me to go with you. I'll turn home-along as they used to say in Devonshire, and try to do a little writing while I can, for after to-morrow I fear it will not be easy.
An old shepherd presently entered the hut from the direction of the ewes, and looked around in the gloom. 'Be ye sleepy? he asked in cross accents of the boy. The lad replied rather timidly in the negative. 'Then, said the shepherd, 'I'll get me home-along, and rest for a few hours. There's nothing to be done here now as I can see.
"And now," said the bailiff, finally, "all is settled, I think, about your coming, and I am going home-along. Good-night to ye, shepherd." "Can you get me a lodging?" inquired Gabriel. "That I can't, indeed," he said, moving past Oak as a Christian edges past an offertory-plate when he does not mean to contribute.
Well I knew the coat; an' a madness takin' me for all my loss, I unhitched it an' flung it behind the door, an', the keg bein' filled, picked it up agen and ran down home-along. "No thought had I but to win Seth back.
Now, Margery, let's sit down here, and have this cleared. He rapped with his stick upon the rail of a little bridge they were crossing, and seated himself firmly, leaving a place for her. 'But I want to get home-along, dear Jim, she coaxed. 'Fidgets. Sit down, there's a dear. I want a straightforward answer, if you please. In what month, and on what day of the month, will you marry me?
'But if I was you two, I should drive home-along straight and quiet; and be very busy in the mill all to-morrow, Mr. Loveday. They drove away; and when they had got onward out of the town, Anne strained her eyes wistfully towards Portland. Its dark contour, lying like a whale on the sea, was just perceptible in the gloom as the background to half-a-dozen ships' lights nearer at hand.
'Days get shorter, said one of the dairymen, as he looked towards the street, and noticed that the lamp-lighter was passing by. The farmers merely acknowledged by their countenances the propriety of this remark, and finding that nobody else spoke, one of the barmaids said 'yes, in a tone of painful duty. 'Come fair-day we shall have to light up before we start for home-along.
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