21/27 "I would turn my back on Marsden and never come back again, were it not for the little ones. Besides," he added after a pause, "father's last words were, 'Be kind to mother;' and she will want it more than he ever dreamed of." "She will that," Bill agreed; "leastways unless oi be mistaken. And what be'st going to do now, lad? "I must think it over quietly, and it would be worse to bear there than anywhere else. No, I shall just walk about." "Thou canst not walk abowt all night, Maister Ned," Bill said positively; "it bain't to be thowt of. |