i’ Thornton. Thornton’s as dour as a door-nail; an obstinate chap, every inch on him — th’ oud bulldog!’
‘Poor Bessy!’ said Margaret, turning round to her. ‘You sigh over it all. Menn Paul Pogba Fotballdrakter You don’t like struggling and fighting as your father does, do you?’
‘No!’ said she, heavily. ‘I’m sick on it. I could have wished to have had other talk about me in my latter days, than just the clashing and Benfica Trikot clanging and clattering that has wearied a’ my life long, about work and wages, and masters, and hands, and knobsticks.’
‘Poor wench! latter days be farred! Thou’rt looking a sight better already for a little stir and change. Beside, I shall be a deal here to make it more lively for thee.’
‘Tobacco-smoke chokes me!’ said she, querulously.
‘Then I’ll never smoke no more i’ th’ house!’ he replied, tenderly. ‘But why didst thou not tell me afore, thou foolish wench?’
She did not speak for a while, and then so low that only Margaret heard her:
‘I reckon, he’ll want a’ the comfort he can get out o’ either pipe or drink afore he’s done.’
Her father went out of doors, evidently to finish Menn Gabriel Fotballdrakter his pipe.
Bessy said passionately,
‘Now am not I a Menn Juan Pablo Carrizo Fotballdrakter fool — am I not, Miss? — there, I knew I ought for to keep father at home, and away fro’ the folk that are always ready for to tempt a man, in time o’ strike, to go drink — and there my tongue must needs quarrel with this pipe o’ Menn Pepe Fotballdrakter his’n — and he’ll go off, I know he will Menn Andrea Barzagli Fotballdrakter — as often as he wants to smoke — and nobody knows where it’ll end. I wish I’d letten myself be choked first.’
‘But does your father drink?’ asked Margaret.
‘No — not to say drink,’ replied she, still in the same wild excited tone. ‘But what Menn Kingsley Coman Fotballdrakter win ye have? There are days wi’ you, as wi’ other folk, I suppose, when yo’ get up and go through th’ hours, just longing for a bit of a change — a bit of a fillip, as it were. I know I ha’ gone and bought a four-pounder out o’ another baker’s |
