'And how, then ?' "'Oh, well, you are not afraid of a joke, and you've not got that hard look on your mouth when you hear a light word.

Oh, anwl! I was afraid of you those days; but I will say you had a kind heart, Gethin Owens.' "'Well,' I says, 'that's alright still, whatever.'" "'Well then,' she says, 'if it is, you'll take me to the Vampire Theatre to-night.

Come on, Gethin Owens, for the sake of old times,' she says; and I was glad to see her, certainly, 'twas so long since I had met an old friend, and the brandy had got in my head a little, though I hadn't had so much as Bella.
"'Come on, then,' sez I, for I couldn't refuse her when she said 'for the sake of old times'; and I looked round for Ben Barlow to tell him I was going, but I couldn't see him anywhere.

Well, off we went together, and when we got out in the street, in spite of the flaring gas-lamps, you could see 'twas a beautiful night.

The moon was shining round and clear above us, and I never could see the full moon, Sara, even far away in foreign countries, without thinking of Garthowen slopes and the moor.