This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... Howsumdever, Clem and Polly may have took it wud 'em, surelye. I'm sorry, Mus' Wheelsgate, but if Clem's got it you shall have a bit laater, fur we're meaning to send raound bits to friends--we've got dentical liddle boxes wud lace on them from Mus' Powlard. You shud ought to see them." For one of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... Howsumdever, Clem and Polly may have took it wud 'em, surelye. I'm sorry, Mus' Wheelsgate, but if Clem's got it you shall have a bit laater, fur we're meaning to send raound bits to friends--we've got dentical liddle boxes wud lace on them from Mus' Powlard. You shud ought to see them." For one of the few times in their lives Mary and Robert exchanged a look of sympathy. Mother was incorrigible--she needed poor faather to look after her. Jim, who alone had authority, was busy in the yard. All they could do was to hang uneasily and embarrassingly round her and her friends till at last the men went off and Mrs. Fuller with a placid smile turned back into the house. "There's naun lik a wedding fur pleasure," she remarked. "Maybe," said Mary, "but it's a pity when it comes too soon after a funeral." Relieved of his charge, Robert set off about his own affairs. He knew that he ought to go and help Jim with the milking, but he felt that he could not settle down to work. So it was the women who had to change quickly into their oldest gowns and take their places on the milking stools, while Robert, still in his wedding finery, walked off to Blindgrooms. It was rather early to be sure of finding Hannah, but her mother would be there, and Robert felt that he would not be wasting his time if he could get himself into the old woman's good graces, for to her mother's dislike of his "gorgeousness" or Gentilehood he attributed Hannah's occasional withdrawal. But, contrariwise, it was the daughter and not the mother that he found in the big dark kitchen of Blindgrooms. It was an enormous room, probably two knocked into one at some forgotten date, and very damp, for the cottage was built below the level of the road--one went down to it by a moss-grown...
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