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"'I, Abel Guppy," resumed Jenny, "'bein' firm in mind and body, do hereby state as I wish for to leave my sweetheart, Jenny Pitcher, if I do die in this 'ere war, all what I've a-got in this world. The money in the Savings Bank " Betty groaned and threw up her eyes to heaven; Susan involuntarily clenched her fist; Sam's brow cleared.
But before the singular muteness of this family sounds would not come. Finishing his tea, he tremblingly arose. Things that he might have said jostled in his mind. 'Very pleased to 'a seen you. Hope you're in good health at the present time of speaking. Don't let me intrude on you. We've all a-got to die some time or other! They remained unuttered.
"No, but there's one thing you can't get out of, Miss Jenny, so clever as ye think yerself," cried the outraged possessor of the hearthrug. "You be a-comed here on false pertences. Even if my nevvy be dead you han't a-got no right to these 'ere things now.
From his smithy window Mendarva spied Taffy coming along the road, and stepped out on the green to shake hands with him. "Pleased to see your face, my son! You'll excuse my not asking 'ee inside; but the fact is" he jerked his thumb towards the smithy " we've a-got our troubles in there." It came on our youth with something of a shock that the world had room for any trouble beside his own.
I'd a-got Jas myself ef he hadn't been so all-fired quick o' trigger." Up at the root of the pine-tree Isom stood motionless, with his long rifle in one hand and a little cloud of smoke breaking above his white face. When Rome looked up he started down without a word. Steve swung himself over the ledge. "I heerd the shootin'," said the boy, "up thar at the cave, 'n' I couldn't stay thar.
Having finished and put it on to boil, she turned to the roasting of some barley for the next morning's coffee. "I wish we'd a-got her a little trinket for to-night," said the biggest brother, "even if it'd a-been only worth ten cents." He took out his pipe and filled it from a handful of corn-silk in his jumper pocket. "I'd be tickled to death," he added, "if I could have a plug of tobacco."
Lev' us go into the house an' touch pipe." "It surprises me," said the Elder, "to find you so cheerful as you be. An occupation like this goin' out o' your life I reckoned you might feel it, a'most like the loss of a limb." "A man o' my age ought to wean hisself from things earthly," said the old man; "an' besides, I've a-got you." "Hey?" "Henceforth I've a-got you, an' all to yourself."
The landlord shook his head with a stubborn, rustic negative. "No, we arn't a-got no gentleman o' thik there name in the house," he said; "fact is, zur, to tell 'ee the truth, we arn't a-had nobody stoppin' in the Arms at all lately, 'cep' it might be a gentleman come down from London, an' it was day afore yesterday as he did come, an' he do call 'unself McGregor."
But there was one question she had omitted and must yet ask. "You said, jus' now, you used to play by the sea, somewheres beneath that line o' white houses you was tellin' of. Well, you couldn' a-got down there on your own, at that age could yer, now? W'ich means you must a-been carried." "I suppose so." "No supposin' about it. You must a-been.
"They wan't no real sense ner reason in my hangin' around, jest gittin' under foot," he stated thoughtfully. "I done about all I was called on to do, didn't I? Why, I reckon when all's said and done, I jest about won that fight myself! For if I hadn't a-come he wouldn't never a-got that ribbon. And Godfrey, but didn't that wake him!"
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