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"My father is not well; but how do you know?" said Charlotte. "Well, miss, I went to the house to-day, a-looking fur you and the servant she told me, she said as there worn't never a hope, as the old master were safe to die." "Then maybe I can tell himself hup in heaven as I quite furgives him," said Dan Wright. Charlotte glanced from one speaker to the other in a kind of terrible astonishment.
"Jack Murthly worn't their father!" A fresh shower of nods. "Yo may take it at that!" "Well, then, who ?" Betty bent hastily forward Diana had placed herself on a stool before her and, thrusting out her wrinkled lips, said, in a hoarse whisper: "Two fathers!" There was a silence. "I don't understand, Betty," said Diana, softly. "Jack was 'is father, all right Tom's in South Africa.
"Jump across here, love," said Mother Bunch; "there's a hole two feet wide just by this corner, and you'd drop into the cellar ef you worn't careful. Oh, glory! but my breath's nearly gone I'm bate entirely. I'm letting you the room chape as dirt, Bet Granger, 'cos I've took a fancy to you, honey; and that's as true as my name is Molly O'Flaherty.
"Fool am I, you little ugly thief? Worn't you a-scorchin' down the road w'it? I see you." The other Amorians curled up with laughter at the way things were mixing up, and at the last exquisite joke. "Jove, Rogers, to think you meant to steal it!" burbled Poulett. "Leave loose of my collar, you idiot," said Rogers, squirming in the man's grasp; "I tell you it's all a mistake."
'Tha'lt rouse thysen up a bit again, now, Maggie, the father-in-law said and then to me: ''ers not bin very bright sin' Alfred came whoam, an' the bod flyed awee. 'E come whoam a Wednesday night, Alfred did. But ay, you knowed, didna yer. Ay, 'e comed 'a Wednesday an' I reckon there wor a bit of a to-do between 'em, worn't there, Maggie?
But still I'd like fur to say as I give hup my old mother, Missie. I wor starving fur my mother, and I thought as I'd see her soon, soon. But it worn't fur to be. I'm goin' back to my master and the old life, and you shall have the purse o' gold. I did bitter, bitter wrong; but I'll do right now. So good-by, my darling darlin' little Missie Cecile."
Better by far, in our estimation, nevertheless, than the smart Cockney facetiousness of the inimitable Sam; better than the old coachman's closing lamentation, "Vy worn't there a alleybi?" better than Mr. Winkle, or Mrs.
"Now look here," he said resolutely, "it don't matter. I'm not goin' to be took by Westall. I'd kill him or myself first. But he caught me lookin' at a snare this mornin' it wor misty, and I didn't see no one comin'. It wor close to the footpath, and it worn't my snare." "'Jim, my chap, says he, mockin', 'I'm sorry for it, but I'm going to search yer, so take it quietly, says he.
"Didn't I tell ye?" he exclaimed, turning round upon Bainton; "Didn't I say as 'ow this was the way to do it? and as 'ow the little gel wot I knew as a baby would listen to me when she wouldn't listen to no one else? An' as 'ow the Five Sisters would be spared? An' worn't I right! Worn't I true?" Maryllia smiled.
"Granua," said her mother, reprovingly, "think of yourself and what you are about; if you worn't a light-hearted, and, I'm afeard, a light-headed, girl, too, you wouldn't go on as you do, especially when you know what you know, and what Barney here, too, knows." "Ah," said Barney, his whole manner immediately changing, "have you heard from him, poor fellow?"
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