[Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy]@TWC D-Link bookWessex Tales CHAPTER V--HOW THEY WENT TO LULSTEAD COVE 11/18
We must sling the apple-tree in the orchet if there's time.
We can't put any more under the church lumber than I have sent on there, and my mixen hev already more in en than is safe.' 'Very well,' she said.
'Be quick about it--that's all.
What can I do ?' 'Nothing at all, please.
Ah, it is the minister!--you two that can't do anything had better get indoors and not be zeed.' While Owlett thus conversed, in a tone so full of contraband anxiety and so free from lover's jealousy, the men who followed him had been descending one by one from the hedge; and it unfortunately happened that when the hindmost took his leap, the cord slipped which sustained his tubs: the result was that both the kegs fell into the road, one of them being stove in by the blow. ''Od drown it all!' said Owlett, rushing back. 'It is worth a good deal, I suppose ?' said Stockdale. 'O no--about two guineas and half to us now,' said Lizzy excitedly.
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