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'It would be madness both for you an' th' child. Now, he says, very quiet an' gentle, 'if I might advise, I should say stay here with the child. Eh, I couldn't tell ye all he said, an' then Sir Tummas coom bustlin' up, 'Do, now, my dear; think of it, he says, pattin' her o' th' hand.
When I was up in Sing Sing once, sort of by accident, you might say, there was a lot of talk about prison reform, and pattin' the crooks on the back, and tellin' them they could be just as good as anybody else if they had a chance.
She has her wages, and I mun mak' her a present, says he, pattin' my shouther wi' his hand. "And he did gimma a goud pound and I went aff to Lexhoe about an hour after, and sa hame by the stage-coach, and fain was I to be at hame again; and I never sid Dame Crowl o' Applewale, God be thanked, either in appearance or in dream, at-efter.
Wells, steppin' over and pattin' her on the back. But that don't have any effect. The heavin' motion goes right on, and no answer comes from Deary. "Mabel! Mabel, dear!" insists Hackett. "Tell me what is wrong. Come now!" Mabel just shakes off his hand and continues her chest gymnastics. Also she begins kickin' her heels against the chair rungs.
"Torchy," says she, "don't you dare try getting up again at daylight and working with your poor blistered hands. I I shall feel dreadfully about it, if you do." "Well, maybe I will skip tomorrow mornin'," says I, "but somehow or other that diggin' has got to be done." "I only wish Auntie could hear you say that," says Vee, pattin' me gently on the cheek. "Why Auntie?" I asks.
"You're Doris's mother, you know, and " "Good boy!" says she, reachin' out after one of his hands and pattin' it. "I'm glad you did too. Doris, she's got too fine for her old mother. That ain't so much her fault as it is mine, I expect. I'm kind of rough, and a good deal behind the times. I ain't kept up, not even the way Leo has. But then, I ain't had the chance.
This fiddler was playin' somethin' awful devilish and quick, and the rest was pattin' their hands and feet while the old feller was dancin'. He was dressed in a fine, tight fittin' coat and had on varnished shoes, and a panama hat with a string buttoned into his lapel so his hat wouldn't blow away; and a diamond in his necktie, and one on his hand that I could see glitter as he danced.
An' this news brought 'em o' out o' their nooks in a fluster. Owd Isaac wur sit i'th parlour, havin' a glass wi' a chap that he'd bin sellin' a cowt to. Th' little lass went bouncin' into th' reawm to him; an' hoo said, 'Eh, father, th' new weshin'-machine's come'd! 'Well, well, said Isaac, pattin' her o'th yed; 'go thi ways an' tell thi mother. Aw'm no wesher.
"Huh!" says I, glancin' over to where Hartley is springin' sort of a sheepish smile at a buck private who's pattin' him on the back, "I think you can most call it a job now." And then again, you can't always tell. I forget whether it was Bill Shakespeare first sprung that line, or Willie Collier; but whoever it was he said a whole bookful at once. Wise stuff. That's it. And simple, too.
"How could they drive in two muskeeters?" "Oh! less stop talkin' for a spell shet up your little mouth," says Josiah in a winnin' tone, pattin' him on his head. "I can shut up my mouth, uncle Josiah, but I can't shut up my thinker." Josiah sithed; and, right while he wus a sithin', the boy commenced agin on a new tack. "What for a lookin' place was paradise?"
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