Do yo' know any thing whatsomever about him?
He niver had a chance o' saying anything, I know; but maybe he's written ?' 'Not a line, my poor young woman!' said Jeremiah, hastily putting an end to that vain idea.
'Then he's either dead or gone away for iver,' she whispered.

'I mun be both feyther and mother to my child.' 'Oh! thee must not give it up,' replied he.

'Many a one is carried off to the wars, or to the tenders o' men-o'-war; and then they turn out to be unfit for service, and are sent home.

Philip 'll come back before the year's out; thee'll see that.' 'No; he'll niver come back.

And I'm not sure as I should iver wish him t' come back, if I could but know what was gone wi' him.