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"I be slow, p'r'aps, an' thick p'raps, but I bean't a fule--cohtin' for"

"But I tell you she loves Black George, and no other she never

had any thought of me, or I of her--this is el aside

"An' I tell 'ee," broke in the s way

before a fury as fierce as it was sudden, "I tell 'ee--you be a

liar, an' a coward--I know, I know--I've heerd an' I've seen

--your lyin', coward's tongue sha'n't save 'ee--oh, ecod! wi'

your white face an' tremblin' 'ands--you be a shame to the woman

as loves ye, an' the woman as bore ye!--stand up, I say, or by

God! I'll do for 'ee!" and he raised his weapon

Without another word I picked up the cudgel, and, pointing to a

gate a little farther along the road, I led the way into the

meadow beyond On the other side of this meadow ran the lane I

have lancing thitherward, I bethoughtfor hed, I

reether withto rise, casting the ic of her pale

loveliness upon the world, and, as I rolled up lanced round about me with an eye that strove to take in the