'A should ha' thought as Philip were more likely to ha' gi'en him a shove into t' thick on it, than t' help him out o' t' scrape.' 'Nay!' said Sylvia, suddenly looking straight at Kester; 'yo're out theere.

Philip had a deal o' good in him.

And I dunnot think as he'd ha' gone and married another woman so soon, if he'd been i' Kinraid's place.' 'An' yo've niver heared on Philip sin' he left ?' asked Kester, after a while.
'Niver; nought but what she told me.

And she said that t' captain made inquiry for him right and left, as soon after that happened as might be, and could hear niver a word about him.

No one had seen him, or knowed his name.' 'Yo' niver heared of his goin' for t' be a soldier ?' persevered Kester.
'Niver.