Go to the public-house and get half-drunk." "Half-drunk ?" "Half-drunk! Don't I speak plain ?" "Miners," said Burnley, candidly, "never get half-drunk in t' county Durham; they are that the best part of their time." "Then you get half-drunk, neither more nor less, or I'll discharge you as Hope has done, and that will be the worst discharge of the two for you.
When you are half-drunk come here directly, and hang about this place.
No; you had better be under that tree in the middle of the field there, and pretend to be sleeping off your liquor.

Come, mizzle!" When he had packed off Burnley, he got back into his hiding-place, and only just in time, for Hope came back again upon the wings of love, and Grace, whose elastic nature had revived, saw him coming, and came out to meet him.

Hope scolded her urgently: why had she got off the sofa when repose was so necessary for her?
"You are mistaken, dear father," said she.

"I am wonderfully strong and healthy; I never fainted away in my life, and my mind will not let me rest at present--I have been longing so for my father." "Ah, precious word!" murmured Hope.

"Keep saying that word to me, darling.