19/29 'Why, where Jim Candle works, you know, Mr.Hackroyd.' Luke nodded, knowing the circumstance. The whole story was familiar to him, indeed; but Mr.Boddy talked on in an old man's way for pleasure in the past. Me an' my wife took the little 'uns to the 'Orspital. He knew 'em, did poor Mat, but he couldn't speak. What a face he had! Thyrza was frighted and cried; Lyddy just held on hard to my hand, but she didn't cry. |