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140 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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tavern for the comfort of the _unhapjDy pair . The good vicar obeys the summons , and is soon standing by the bed of his _jDenitent .
privilege " Tliou and hast duty a sense of the of ministers wrong on of God tliy ' conscience s Word to , hel Robert p true , penitents and it is with the counsel " Oi ' m , and fain to pray worshi with them to for the aid spake of the so koindl ' Power to from a on lad high . . ' Oi " 'd
, your p , year yo y poor rayther dee nur wrang Nancy ; an'hoo ' s welly brokken hearted-as we're noan " She gradely has tol wed d . " me your . story ; you were led away more and more from work at the loombthese
home , your father and mother , and your quiet , y foot races . " o " True as Oi gospel wur , made yore worshi Cock p o ; ' Rossendale but for Nancy an an ' nowt ' Barnabas ud fit , oi t' 'st wavers a gooan o '
Whitworth wrang . an' Ratchda ; bur I man sit in a cheer ; loike a king , wi' a creawn danced on my an yead ' sang , in an t' ' Gad made -about o' mack io th o' ' marlock Gank ni s g , h till th I ' wur church fair steps drunk , . woile " tey
" Thou hadst been more or less overtaken in drink before , Robert . " " Oi winnot deny it . An' Nancy , good wench , took it niich to heart . OI towd her if hoo'd wed me reet on end , oi'd tak' teatotal pledge , and never
run " But again wh . " y did you grieve her by being married by Parson Golightly ?" t' Gadab " Oh , L out ord i' th forg ' Gank ie me for drunk a fawse as a sinn king er as oi'd oi' gone wur . my Afore own hoo gate fun and me gien in
, , notice an' o that ut we moit be wed by Golightly . " " Had you told Nancy of this ?" " _Not oi ; oi wur o wrang unsattled loike ; oi lost my yead , wur as wilfu ' willnill
as " a Seest young thou cowlt not ; , an poor ' oi lad wur , what fur may snare ing s the her wed devil me had laid y for y thy . " soul ?" " Nancy made it o' as clear as dayleet to mebur I wur in a fearfu' state
, li wi ghtl drink y . , Hoo so oi 'd towd be wed her no oi wheer 'd run bur me country i' th' church if hoo , and 'd noan by parson be wed Hollings by Go- - worth ; but hoo were as gentle as a doo , an' oi wur as hard as a millstone .
So hoo towd me , if oi'd tak' t' pledge , and gie up t' race running , an' wed her gradely at after , hoo'd be moi woife i' moi wilfu' fashion . " " Didst thou force her conscience to yield this to thee ?" selfishness oi
" Oi wur mad wi love o' Nancy , an' wi' nobbut headstrong did—an' may God in his marcy forgie me . " " Amen , " said the vicar , solemnly . " Nancy has told me that you were
married by Parson Golightly , and here is a copy of the certificate ; but it is irregular , neither banns nor licence were obtained . " " Are we gradely mon and woife , parson ? " wife
" Yes , if not by man's law , yet in the eye of God you are man and _; bert but , in which thy headstrong if thou wouldst haste have thou her hast happy done , a I wrong counsel to the th e y to pretty repair wife . " ,
Ro" O but oi'n scarce slept sin oi fun how Nancy took it . Hoo thowt hoo'd and gien we her wur soul fur to to th be ' now wed 't o for ' Monday me . We next ' n , had when t' oi banns leet o read ' this twice misfortune , parson . " ,
" Dost thou repent thee then of tliis violence to thy loving wife ? " " Wi' o me heart oi repent . " " Dost Oi'd thou dee for desire her to parson make her an' amends oi'll do b owt y thy as kindness a mon con all th do y to life content ?"
her . " , , "If you are of that mind we will have your wife here , and I will make you known seek to all more what fuil you y the have sanction concealed of , that the Hol you y are Churc man h and to your wife , marriage but that
vows . "
led he saving r into the the roo vic m ar , say wal in k e , — d to the head of the stairs , and calling Nancy ,
140 Notices Of Books.
140 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/68/
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