Podcast Appearances
he was naught to me now em'ly was all i bought a country dress to put upon her and i knowed that once found she would walk beside me over them stony roads go where i would and never never leave me more
To put that dress upon her, and to cast off what she wore, to take her on my arm again and wander towards home, to stop sometimes upon the road and heal her bruised feet and her worse bruised heart, was all that I thought of now.
I don't believe I should have done so much as look at him.
But, Master Davy, it weren't to be.
I was too late, and they was gone.
Where I couldn't learn.
Some said here, some said there.
I travelled here, and I travelled there, but I found no Emily, and I travelled home.
A matter of four days, said Mr. Peggedy.
I sighted the old boat after dark, and the light a-shinin' in the window.
When I come nigh and looked in through the glass, I see the faithful creature Mrs. Gummidge sittin' by the fire, as we had fixed upon, alone.
I called out, "'Don't be afeard, it's Dan'l,' and I went in.
I never could have thought the old boat would have been so strange."
From some pocket in his breast he took out, with a very careful hand, a small paper bundle containing two or three letters or little packets which he laid upon the table.
This first one come, he said, selecting it from the rest, afore I had been gone a week.
A fifty-pound banknote, in a sheet of paper, directed to me and put underneath the door in the night.
She tried to hide her writing, but she couldn't hide it from me.