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-Title: Sussex Gorse
-       The Story of a Fight
-
-Author: Sheila Kaye-Smith
-
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@@ -109,7 +82,7 @@ PROLOGUE
 THE CHALLENGE
 
 
-§ 1.
+§ 1.
 
 Boarzell Fair had been held every year on Boarzell Moor for as long as
 the oldest in Peasmarsh could remember. The last Thursday in October was
@@ -199,7 +172,7 @@ said old Vennal of Burntbarns; "forty acres they gave him, and all bush
 and timber rights."
 
 "And what about Odiam?" asked Ticehurst of Hole. "I haven't seen
-Backfield these three weeks, but there's a tale going räound as how the
+Backfield these three weeks, but there's a tale going räound as how the
 commissioners have bin tedious sharp, and done him out of everything he
 hoped to get--surelye!"
 
@@ -209,7 +182,7 @@ hoped to get--surelye!"
 
 "How did they do it?"
 
-"Oh, it's just a tale that's going räound--says they found some lawyer's
+"Oh, it's just a tale that's going räound--says they found some lawyer's
 mess in his title-deed. His father never thought of common rights when
 he bought the land, and it seems as how they must be written down just
 lik anything else.... But there's young Ben Backfield talking to
@@ -218,7 +191,7 @@ Coalbran. He'll tell us, I reckon."
 They went over to a man and a lad, standing together by the gingerbread
 stall.
 
-"We was wondering wot yer fäather had got out o' them commissioners,
+"We was wondering wot yer fäather had got out o' them commissioners,
 Ben," said Ticehurst.
 
 Reuben Backfield scowled. His thick black brows scowled easily, but the
@@ -229,15 +202,15 @@ looked younger than his age, for though tall and well-knit, his limbs
 had all the graceful immaturity and supple clumsiness one sees in the
 limbs of calves and foals.
 
-"Fäather äun't got naun--haven't you heard? He made his claim, and then
+"Fäather äun't got naun--haven't you heard? He made his claim, and then
 they asked to see the title-deeds, and it turned out as how he hadn't
 got no common rights at all--leastways so the lawyers said."
 
 "But he used to send the cows on, didn't he?"
 
-"Yes--now and agäun--didn't know it wurn't right. Seems it 'ud have
+"Yes--now and agäun--didn't know it wurn't right. Seems it 'ud have
 been better if he'd sent 'em oftener; there's no understanding that
-lawyer rubbidge. Now he mayn't täake so much as a blade of grass."
+lawyer rubbidge. Now he mayn't täake so much as a blade of grass."
 
 "Realf of Grandturzel has got his bit all safe."
 
@@ -247,22 +220,22 @@ Reuben spat.
 reckon. The Squire 'ud like every rood of Boarzell, though the Lard
 knows wot he'll do wud it now he's got it."
 
-"Your fäather must be in lamentable heart about all this, surelye."
+"Your fäather must be in lamentable heart about all this, surelye."
 
 The boy shrugged and frowned.
 
-"He döan't care much. Fäather, he likes to be comfortable, and this
-Inclosure wöan't make much difference to that. 'Täun't as if we wanted
-the pasture badly, and Fäather he döan't care about land."
+"He döan't care much. Fäather, he likes to be comfortable, and this
+Inclosure wöan't make much difference to that. 'Täun't as if we wanted
+the pasture badly, and Fäather he döan't care about land."
 
 He dragged the last word a little slowly, and there was the faintest
 hint of a catch in his voice.
 
 "And your mother, and Harry?"
 
-"They döan't care, nuther--it's only me."
+"They döan't care, nuther--it's only me."
 
-"Lard, boy!--and why should you care if they döan't?"
+"Lard, boy!--and why should you care if they döan't?"
 
 Reuben did not speak, but a dull red crept over the swarthiness of his
 cheeks, and he turned away.
@@ -282,17 +255,17 @@ ambitionless content.
 
 "We're no worser off than we wur before," Joseph Backfield had said a
 day or two ago to his complaining boy--"we've our own meadows for the
-cows--'täun't as if we were poor people."
+cows--'täun't as if we were poor people."
 
-"But, fäather, think wot we might have had--forty acres inclosed for us,
+"But, fäather, think wot we might have had--forty acres inclosed for us,
 like they have at Grandturzel."
 
-"'Might have--might have'--that döan't trouble me. It's wot I've got I
-think about. And then, say we had it--wot 'ud you mäake out o'
+"'Might have--might have'--that döan't trouble me. It's wot I've got I
+think about. And then, say we had it--wot 'ud you mäake out o'
 Boarzell?--nasty mess o' marl and shards, no good to anyone as long as
-thistles äun't fashionable eating."
+thistles äun't fashionable eating."
 
-"_I_ cud mäake something out of Boarzell."
+"_I_ cud mäake something out of Boarzell."
 
 At this his father burst into a huge fit of laughter, and Reuben walked
 away.
@@ -322,17 +295,17 @@ Socknersh."
 
 "Drat 'em! durn 'em!"
 
-"And why shudn't there be fences? What good did this old rubbidge-pläace
+"And why shudn't there be fences? What good did this old rubbidge-pläace
 ever do anyone? Scarce a mouthful fur a goat. Now it'll be built on, and
 there'll be money fur everybody."
 
 "Money fur Bardon."
 
-"Money fur us all. The Squire äun't no Tory grabber."
+"Money fur us all. The Squire äun't no Tory grabber."
 
-"Then wot dud he täake our land fur?"
+"Then wot dud he täake our land fur?"
 
-"Wot wur the use of it?--save fur such as wanted a quiet pläace fur
+"Wot wur the use of it?--save fur such as wanted a quiet pläace fur
 their wenching."
 
 "Put up yer fists!"
@@ -367,7 +340,7 @@ conscious of very little save the smell of unwashed bodies and the
 bursting rage in his heart.
 
 
-§ 2.
+§ 2.
 
 The fences were being put up in the low grounds by Socknersh, a
 leasehold farm on the fringe of the Manor estate. The fence-builders
@@ -539,7 +512,7 @@ nose.
 He choked, and fell into the darkness.
 
 
-§ 3.
+§ 3.
 
 His first sensation on returning to consciousness was of being jolted.
 It was, like most half-realised experiences, on the boundary line
@@ -568,7 +541,7 @@ looked over the side of the cart.
 
 "I want to know where I'm going, surelye."
 
-"You're going to Rye, that's where you're going, just fur a täaste of
+"You're going to Rye, that's where you're going, just fur a täaste of
 the rope's end, you young varmint."
 
 The tones were not unkindly, and Reuben plucked up courage.
@@ -676,7 +649,7 @@ He left the post with a great oath in his heart, and a thin trickle of
 blood on his chin.
 
 
-§ 4.
+§ 4.
 
 It was still early in the afternoon when Reuben set out homewards, but
 he had a long way to go, and felt tired and bruised. The constable had
@@ -781,7 +754,7 @@ want to go mixing up in them things fur?"
 "Mad that they shud shut up Boarzell and that Odiam shudn't have its
 rights."
 
-"Wot's Odiam to you?--It äun't yours, it's mine, and if I döan't care
+"Wot's Odiam to you?--It äun't yours, it's mine, and if I döan't care
 about the land, why shud you go disgracing yourself and us all because
 of it?"
 
@@ -792,13 +765,13 @@ nearly met over his nose.
 
 "Ought to! Listen to that, mother. Dud you ever hear the like? And if I
 cared, my lad, where wud you all be? Where wud be that plate o' sossiges
-you're eating? It's just because I äun't a land-grabber lik so many I
-cud näum that you and Harry sit scrunching here instead of working the
-flesh off your böans, that your mother wears a muslin apron 'stead of a
+you're eating? It's just because I äun't a land-grabber lik so many I
+cud näum that you and Harry sit scrunching here instead of working the
+flesh off your böans, that your mother wears a muslin apron 'stead of a
 sacking one, that you have good food to eat, and white bread, 'stead of
-oaten. Wot's the use of hundreds of acres if you äun't comfortable at
-höame? I've no ambitions, so I'm a happy man. I döan't want nothing I
-haven't got, and so I haven't got nothing I döan't want. Surelye!"
+oaten. Wot's the use of hundreds of acres if you äun't comfortable at
+höame? I've no ambitions, so I'm a happy man. I döan't want nothing I
+haven't got, and so I haven't got nothing I döan't want. Surelye!"
 
 Reuben was silent, his heart was full of disgust. Somehow those
 delicious sausages stuck in his throat, but he was too young to push
@@ -846,7 +819,7 @@ BOOK I
 THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT
 
 
-§ 1.
+§ 1.
 
 It was five years later, in the February of 1840.
 
@@ -926,8 +899,8 @@ of resolve. Now he was resolved--there should be changes at Odiam. He
 must give up that old easy, "comfortable" life on which his father had
 set such store. A ghost seemed to whisper in the room, as if the voice
 of the dead man once more declared his gospel--"I've no ambitions, so
-I'm a happy man. I döan't want nothing I haven't got, and so I haven't
-got nothing I döan't want."
+I'm a happy man. I döan't want nothing I haven't got, and so I haven't
+got nothing I döan't want."
 
 Yes--there was no denying his father had been happy. But what a
 happiness! Even there by his side Reuben despised it. He, Reuben, would
@@ -967,7 +940,7 @@ He must not spare them--he must not spare anyone; he would not spare
 them, any more than he would spare himself.
 
 
-§ 2.
+§ 2.
 
 Joseph Backfield was buried four days later. His body was carried to the
 church in a hay-waggon, drawn by the meek horses which had drawn his
@@ -1054,10 +1027,10 @@ valiant as Harry."
 
 "How straight he stands!"
 
-"I wäonder wot he's thinking of."
+"I wäonder wot he's thinking of."
 
 
-§ 3.
+§ 3.
 
 Reuben was strangely silent on the walk home. His mother made one or two
 small remarks which passed unheeded. She noticed that his arm, on which
@@ -1101,11 +1074,11 @@ surprised.
 pound of chocolate. It's naun but a treat, and we can do wudout it."
 
 "But we've bin drinking chocolate fur a dunnamany years now--your poor
-fäather always liked it--and I döan't see why we should stop it."
+fäather always liked it--and I döan't see why we should stop it."
 
 "Look'ee, mother, I've something to tell you. I've a plan in my head,
 and it'll justabout mean being shut of a lot of things besides
-chocolate. I know fäather dudn't care much about the farm, about mäaking
+chocolate. I know fäather dudn't care much about the farm, about mäaking
 it grow and buying more land, and all that. But I do. I mean to buy the
 whole of Boarzell."
 
@@ -1117,26 +1090,26 @@ He might have said the whole world, to judge by his mother's and Harry's
 faces.
 
 "Yes--I mean every bit, even the bit Grandturzel's got now. Squire he
-wöan't be sorry to sell it, and I mean to buy it piece by piece. I'll
+wöan't be sorry to sell it, and I mean to buy it piece by piece. I'll
 buy my first piece at the end of this year. We must start saving money
 at wunst. But I can't do naun wudout you help me, you two."
 
 "Wot d'you want to go buying Boarzell fur?" asked Mrs. Backfield in a
-bewildered voice; "the farm's präaper as it is--we döan't want it no
+bewildered voice; "the farm's präaper as it is--we döan't want it no
 bigger."
 
 "And Boarzell's wicked tedious stuff," put in Harry; "naun'll grow there
 but gorse."
 
-"I'll have a good grain growing there in five year--döan't you go
+"I'll have a good grain growing there in five year--döan't you go
 doubting it. The ground wants working, that's all. And as fur not
-wanting the farm no bigger, that wur fäather's idea--Odiam's mine now."
+wanting the farm no bigger, that wur fäather's idea--Odiam's mine now."
 
 "Why can't we jest go on being happy and comfortable, lik we wur
 before?"
 
 "Because I've thought of something much grander, surelye. I'm going to
-mäake us all gurt people, and this a gurt farm. But you've got to help
+mäake us all gurt people, and this a gurt farm. But you've got to help
 me, you and Harry."
 
 "Wot d'you want us to do?"
@@ -1149,22 +1122,22 @@ away--Harry and I can do quite easily wudout him and save his wages."
 
 "Send away Blackman!--oh, Ben, he's bin with us fifteen year."
 
-"I döan't care if he's bin a hunderd. There äun't enough work for three
+"I döan't care if he's bin a hunderd. There äun't enough work for three
 men on this farm, and it's a shame to go wasting ten shilling a week.
-Oh, mother, can't you see how glorious it'll be? I know fäather wanted
+Oh, mother, can't you see how glorious it'll be? I know fäather wanted
 different, but I've bin thinking and dreaming of this fur years."
 
-"You always wur queer about Boarzell. But your fäather 'ud turn in his
+"You always wur queer about Boarzell. But your fäather 'ud turn in his
 grave to think of you sending off Blackman."
 
-"He'll easily git another pläace--I'll find him one myself. And,
-mother--there's something more. Now you haven't got fäather to work fur,
+"He'll easily git another pläace--I'll find him one myself. And,
+mother--there's something more. Now you haven't got fäather to work fur,
 you'll find the time unaccountable long. Wot if you let Becky go, and
 did the cooking and that yourself?"
 
 "Oh, Reuben...."
 
-"You shouldn't ought to ask mother that," said Harry. "She 'äun't used
+"You shouldn't ought to ask mother that," said Harry. "She 'äun't used
 to work. It's well enough fur you and me, we're strong chaps, and
 there's no reason we shouldn't pull to a bit. But mother, she'd never do
 wudout the girl--you see, there's the dairy and the fowls as well as the
@@ -1178,11 +1151,11 @@ Reuben sprang to his feet. "Yes--I do! You're justabout right there. I'm
 starved fur work. I've never really worked in my life, and now I want to
 work till I drop. Look at my arm"--and he showed them his brown hairy
 arm, where the muscles swelled in lumps under the skin--"that's a
-workman's arm, and it's never worked yet--präaperly. You let me send off
+workman's arm, and it's never worked yet--präaperly. You let me send off
 Blackman and Becky, and see how we manage wudout 'em. I'll do most of
 the work myself, I promise you. I couldn't have too much."
 
-"You're a queer lad, Reuben--and more masterful than your poor fäather
+"You're a queer lad, Reuben--and more masterful than your poor fäather
 wur."
 
 "Yes--I'm master here." He sat down, and looked round the table quite
@@ -1194,14 +1167,14 @@ sat for a moment or two in silence.
 
 "He always wur queer about Boarzell," said Mrs. Backfield at last; "you
 remember that time years ago when he got mixed up wud the riot? I said
-to his fäather then as I was sure Ben 'ud want to do something crazy wud
-the farm. But I never thought he'd so soon be mäaster," and a tear
+to his fäather then as I was sure Ben 'ud want to do something crazy wud
+the farm. But I never thought he'd so soon be mäaster," and a tear
 trickled over her smooth cheek.
 
-"I döan't see no harm in his buying a bit of Boarzell if it's going
-cheap--but it äun't worth mäaking all ourselves uncomfortable for it."
+"I döan't see no harm in his buying a bit of Boarzell if it's going
+cheap--but it äun't worth mäaking all ourselves uncomfortable for it."
 
-"No. Howsumdever, we can't stand agäunst him--the pläace is his'n, and
+"No. Howsumdever, we can't stand agäunst him--the pläace is his'n, and
 he can do wot he likes."
 
 "Hush--listen!" said Harry.
@@ -1209,27 +1182,27 @@ he can do wot he likes."
 The sound of voices came from the passage outside the kitchen. Reuben
 was talking to the girl. A word or two reached them.
 
-"Durn! if he äun't getting shut of her!"
+"Durn! if he äun't getting shut of her!"
 
 "I never said as I'd do her work."
 
 Harry sprang to his feet, but his mother laid her hand on his arm.
 
-"Döan't you go vrothering him, lad. It'll only set him agäunst you, and
-I döan't care, not really; there'll be unaccountable liddle work to do
-in the house now your poor fäather's gone, and Blackman wöan't be eating
+"Döan't you go vrothering him, lad. It'll only set him agäunst you, and
+I döan't care, not really; there'll be unaccountable liddle work to do
+in the house now your poor fäather's gone, and Blackman wöan't be eating
 wud us. Besides, as he said, I'll find the days a bit slow wud naun to
 occupy me."
 
 "But it's sass of him to go sending off the girl wudout your leave."
 
-"He's mäaster here."
+"He's mäaster here."
 
 "Ho! we shall see that."
 
 "Now you're not to go quarrelling wud him, Harry. I'd sooner have peace
-than anything whatsumdever. I äun't used to being set agäunst people.
-Besides, it wöan't be fur long."
+than anything whatsumdever. I äun't used to being set agäunst people.
+Besides, it wöan't be fur long."
 
 "No--you're justabout right there. I ought to be able to wed Naomi next
 April year, and then, mother--think of the dear liddle house we shall
@@ -1238,12 +1211,12 @@ trouble, and Ben carrying through his own silly consarns here by
 himself."
 
 "Yes, dearie, I know, and it's unaccountable good of you and Naomi to
-let me come wud you. I döan't think we should ought to mind helping your
+let me come wud you. I döan't think we should ought to mind helping your
 brother a bit here, when we've all that to look forrard to. But he's a
-strange lad, and your fäather 'ud turn in his grave to see him."
+strange lad, and your fäather 'ud turn in his grave to see him."
 
 
-§ 4.
+§ 4.
 
 For the next few months Odiam was in a transitional state. It was
 gradually being divested of its old comfortable ways, and clad in new
@@ -1344,7 +1317,7 @@ and for the sake of that house there was nothing, whether of his own or
 of others, that he could not tame, break down, and destroy.
 
 
-§ 5.
+§ 5.
 
 By the end of the year Reuben had saved enough money to buy five acres
 of Boarzell, in the low grounds down by Totease. He had saved chiefly on
@@ -1399,11 +1372,11 @@ the land was worth, and made the agent a confidant of his dreams.
 
 "It'll want a tedious lot of fighting, will that plot," he asserted, to
 counteract any idea his eagerness might give that Boarzell was a mine of
-hidden fertility--"Dunno as I shall mäake anything out of it. But it's
-land I want--want to mäake myself a sort of landed praprietor"--a
+hidden fertility--"Dunno as I shall mäake anything out of it. But it's
+land I want--want to mäake myself a sort of landed praprietor"--a
 lie--"and raise the old farm up a bit. I'd like to have the whole of
 Boarzell. Reckon as Grandturzel 'ud sell me their bit soon as I've got
-the rest. They'll never mäake anything out of it."
+the rest. They'll never mäake anything out of it."
 
 He walked home over Boarzell, scarcely conscious of the ground he trod.
 He felt like a new-crowned king. As he looked round on the swart
@@ -1421,7 +1394,7 @@ milk and honey. He turned up the soil of it with his foot, and blessed
 the wealden clay.
 
 "No flints here," he said; "reckon there's some stiff ground on the
-hill--but it's only the surface. Heather äun't growing--that's a tedious
+hill--but it's only the surface. Heather äun't growing--that's a tedious
 good sign. I'll have oats here--the best in Peasmarsh."
 
 He stood staring at the grass with its dribbles of lavant and spines of
@@ -1487,7 +1460,7 @@ His fingers dug themselves into the earth, and he embraced Boarzell with
 wide-flung trembling arms. "My land!" he cried--"mine!--mine!"
 
 
-§ 6.
+§ 6.
 
 The neighbourhood sniggered when it heard of Odiam's new land. When it
 heard of Reuben's plans for it and the oats that were to be it grew
@@ -1514,7 +1487,7 @@ His muscles ached for this new carouse of exertion.
 "You'll never do it yourself," said Naomi, who was spending a few days
 at Odiam.
 
-"Oh, wöan't I!" and Reuben showed his strong white teeth.
+"Oh, wöan't I!" and Reuben showed his strong white teeth.
 
 "How many trees are there?"
 
@@ -1540,7 +1513,7 @@ grew timid, and dropped her eyes; Harry found himself speaking with a
 rasp:
 
 "I'm coming to help you, Reuben. You'll never tackle them rootses--it
-äun't everything you can do surelye!"
+äun't everything you can do surelye!"
 
 "I can do that much. You stay here and play the fiddle to Naomi."
 
@@ -1585,7 +1558,7 @@ was clear in the hollow. The bites of the axe cracked out on the still
 air--and suddenly with a soft swish of boughs the tree fell.
 
 
-§ 7.
+§ 7.
 
 That night Reuben came to supper as hungry as a wolf. He was in a fine
 good humour, for his body, pleasantly tired, glowing, aching, tickled
@@ -1640,7 +1613,7 @@ Harry to appear.
 "He'll be disappointed," said Naomi softly.
 
 "I can't help that--the sun's near down, and I must have everything
-präaper by dark."
+präaper by dark."
 
 He went to where the fuse lay like a snake in the grass, and struck his
 flint.
@@ -1713,15 +1686,15 @@ painlessly. All this came afterwards."
 
 "Tell his poor girl he died wudout suffering."
 
-"He äun't dead," said Reuben.
+"He äun't dead," said Reuben.
 
 He had torn off the rags from his brother's heart, and felt it beating.
 
-"He äun't dead."
+"He äun't dead."
 
 "Oh Lord!" wailed Ditch.--"Oh Lord!"
 
-"Here, you chaps, fetch a gëat and put him on it--and döan't let Naomi
+"Here, you chaps, fetch a gëat and put him on it--and döan't let Naomi
 see him."
 
 Naomi had been taken back to Odiam, when Harry, still motionless and
@@ -1734,7 +1707,7 @@ shudderingly away, as if Boarzell were drinking it up--eagerly,
 greedily, as a thirsty land drinks up its first watering.
 
 
-§ 8.
+§ 8.
 
 Dr. Espinette from Rye stood glumly by Harry's bed. His finger lay on
 the fluttering pulse, and his eye studied the little of the sick man's
@@ -1744,7 +1717,7 @@ face that could be seen between its bandages.
 worst of it. The burns aren't very serious in themselves. You must keep
 him quiet, and I'll call again to-morrow morning."
 
-"When ull he wäake up?" asked Mrs. Backfield in the feeble voice her
+"When ull he wäake up?" asked Mrs. Backfield in the feeble voice her
 tears had left her.
 
 "I don't know--it may be in an hour or two, it mayn't be for a week."
@@ -1854,7 +1827,7 @@ of Boarzell was once more visible in the growing light--dark, lumpish,
 malevolent, against the kindling of the sky.
 
 
-§ 9.
+§ 9.
 
 The next few days were terrible, in the house and on the farm. Indoors
 the women nursed Harry, and outdoors Reuben did double work, sleeping at
@@ -1936,7 +1909,7 @@ recognise her.
 "For sometimes," she said, "I think he does."
 
 
-§ 10.
+§ 10.
 
 Towards the middle of February a change took place in Harry. At first it
 was little more than a faint creep of life, putting a little glow in his
@@ -2061,7 +2034,7 @@ She heard of Reuben's plan with some shrinking.
 Backfield.
 
 "Why not? There's naun shameful in it. Munds's brother did it for twenty
-years. And think of the difference it'll mäake to us--thirty pound or so
+years. And think of the difference it'll mäake to us--thirty pound or so
 a year, instead of the dead loss of Harry's keep and the wages of an
 extra man beside. I tell you, mother, I wur fair sick about the farm
 till I thought of this."
@@ -2069,7 +2042,7 @@ till I thought of this."
 "It's always the farm wud you, Reuben. You might sometimes think of your
 own kin."
 
-"I tell you Harry wöan't mind--he'll like it. It'll be something to
+"I tell you Harry wöan't mind--he'll like it. It'll be something to
 occupy him. Besides, hem it all, mother! you can't expect me to kip him
 idling here, wud the farm scarce started yet, and nearly the whole of
 Boarzell still to buy."
@@ -2084,7 +2057,7 @@ Harry in her heart.
 He had more trouble when a day or so later he asked Naomi to inspect
 Harry's musical equipment.
 
-"You see, I döan't know one tune from another, so I can't do it myself.
+"You see, I döan't know one tune from another, so I can't do it myself.
 You might git him to play one or two things over to you, Naomi, and find
 out what he remembers."
 
@@ -2145,7 +2118,7 @@ exclaimed petulently:
 "I hate that Ben of yours!"
 
 
-§ 11.
+§ 11.
 
 Harry made good progress, and Reuben decided that he was to start his
 career at the October Fair. There had been a fiddler at the Fair for
@@ -2189,7 +2162,7 @@ Naomi turned away with a shudder, her eyes full of inexpressible pain.
 Reuben looked after her as she went out of the room, then he took a
 couple of strides and caught her up in the passage.
 
-"It's I who'm täaking you to the Fair, remember," he said, his hand on
+"It's I who'm täaking you to the Fair, remember," he said, his hand on
 her arm.
 
 "Oh, no ... I couldn't go to the Fair."
@@ -2200,7 +2173,7 @@ her arm.
 
 It was the cry of her weakness to his purpose.
 
-"I shall mäake you ... dear."
+"I shall mäake you ... dear."
 
 She flung herself from him, and ran upstairs. That night at supper she
 took no notice of him, talking garrulously all the time to Mrs.
@@ -2412,7 +2385,7 @@ Reuben, and his arms tightened about her.
        And turn to your true love--and find it too late."
 
 
-§ 12.
+§ 12.
 
 Reuben was pleased with the results of that Fair Day. Harry had been a
 complete success. Even on the day itself he was engaged to fiddle at a
@@ -2549,7 +2522,7 @@ She gave him the cream bowl. Their hands accidentally touched; she
 pulled hers away, and the bowl fell and was broken.
 
 
-§ 13.
+§ 13.
 
 The next day Naomi left for Rye, where she stayed three weeks. She was
 mistaken, however, in thinking she had found a place of refuge, the hunt
@@ -2664,7 +2637,7 @@ dim and ghostly, like the twilight and the flowers. When she was close
 he held out his arms to her, and she fell on his breast.
 
 
-§ 14.
+§ 14.
 
 From thenceforward there was no looking back. Preparations for the
 wedding began at once. Old Gasson was delighted, and dowered his girl
@@ -2757,13 +2730,13 @@ admiration for his smartness as a business man.
 
 "Where's Harry?" Vennal asked.
 
-"Sh-sh--döan't you go asking ork'ard questions."
+"Sh-sh--döan't you go asking ork'ard questions."
 
-"They wöan't have him to fiddle, I reckon," said Realf.
+"They wöan't have him to fiddle, I reckon," said Realf.
 
 "I shud say even young Ben wudn't do that."
 
-"Why not?" put in Ditch--"he döan't know naun about it. He's forgotten
+"Why not?" put in Ditch--"he döan't know naun about it. He's forgotten
 she ever wur his girl."
 
 "You can't be sure o' that, Mus' Ditch--only the Lard knows wot mad
@@ -2873,7 +2846,7 @@ BOOK II
 THE WOMAN'S PART
 
 
-§ 1.
+§ 1.
 
 An elegy of oats.
 
@@ -2892,11 +2865,11 @@ battle. That coarse, shaggy, unfruitful land had refused to submit to
 husbandry. Backfield had not yet taken Leviathan as his servant. His
 defeat stimulated local wit.
 
-"How's the peas gitting on, Mäaster?" Ditch of Totease would facetiously
+"How's the peas gitting on, Mäaster?" Ditch of Totease would facetiously
 enquire. "I rode by that new land of yours yesterday, and, says I,
 there's as fine a crop of creeping plants as ever I did see."
 
-"'Täun't peas, thick 'un," Vennal would break in uproariously, "it's
+"'Täun't peas, thick 'un," Vennal would break in uproariously, "it's
 turnips--each of 'em got a root like my fist."
 
 "And here wur I all this time guessing as it wur cabbages acause of the
@@ -2955,7 +2928,7 @@ creature."
 
 "But I could help just a bit."
 
-"No, no--I wöan't have you go wearing yourself out. Döan't let's hear no
+"No, no--I wöan't have you go wearing yourself out. Döan't let's hear no
 more about it."
 
 Naomi had submitted, as she always submitted, and after a while
@@ -3010,7 +2983,7 @@ During this time she saw very little of Harry and scarcely ever thought
 of him. She no longer had any doubts as to his being quite mad.
 
 
-§ 2.
+§ 2.
 
 In the autumn Reuben bought ten more acres of Boarzell--a better piece
 of land than the first, more sheltered, with more clay in the soil. Hops
@@ -3077,7 +3050,7 @@ could not frame his question, but she answered it:
 "All's well ... it's a boy."
 
 
-§ 3.
+§ 3.
 
 Naomi spent a peaceful and happy convalescence. Everything combined for
 her blessedness. The soft April days scattered their scent and sunshine
@@ -3108,10 +3081,10 @@ much about babies as he did about oecumenical councils.
 "He'll soon be able to do a bit of work wud us, Beatup," said Reuben
 apocalyptically.--"I'll have him on when he's ten or thereabouts, and at
 fifteen he'll be doing full man's work. I shouldn't wonder as how I'd
-never want another hand but you--we could manage the pläace, I reckon,
+never want another hand but you--we could manage the pläace, I reckon,
 till the lad's old enough, and then there'll be others...."
 
-"Yus, Mäaster," said Beatup.
+"Yus, Mäaster," said Beatup.
 
 The second piece of land had thriven better than the first. The hops
 were sturdy and promising beside the brook, and on the higher grounds
@@ -3164,7 +3137,7 @@ line--effete--played out. He and his race would show them what was a
 Man.
 
 
-§ 4.
+§ 4.
 
 That summer Naomi realised that she was going to have another child. She
 was sorry, for her maternal instincts were satisfied for the present,
@@ -3196,18 +3169,18 @@ twenty, I shudn't grumble."
 
 "What nonsense you're talking, Backfield," said Naomi primly.
 
-"I äun't talking nonsense, I'm talking sound sense. How am I to run the
+"I äun't talking nonsense, I'm talking sound sense. How am I to run the
 farm wudout boys? I want boys to help me work all that land. I'm going
 to have the whole of Boarzell, as I've told you a dunnamany times, and
-I'll want men wud me on it. So döan't you go talking o' girls. Wot use
+I'll want men wud me on it. So döan't you go talking o' girls. Wot use
 are girls?--none! They just spannel about, and then go off and get
 married."
 
 "But a girl 'ud be useful in the house--she could help mother when she's
 older."
 
-"No, thankee. However hard she works she äun't worth half a boy. You
-give me ten boys, missus, and then I döan't mind you having a girl or so
+"No, thankee. However hard she works she äun't worth half a boy. You
+give me ten boys, missus, and then I döan't mind you having a girl or so
 to please yourself."
 
 Naomi was disgusted. Reuben had once or twice offended her by his
@@ -3223,7 +3196,7 @@ joke?"
 Reuben looked a little blank. None of the details of his great desire
 had hitherto struck him as vulgar.
 
-"Vulgar, am I?" he said ruefully. "No matter, child, we wöan't go
+"Vulgar, am I?" he said ruefully. "No matter, child, we wöan't go
 quarrelling. Come, dry your dear eyes, and maybe to-morrow I'll drive
 you over to Rye to see the market."
 
@@ -3244,7 +3217,7 @@ She even noticed a kind of likeness between him and Boarzell--swart,
 strong, cruel, full of an irrepressible life.
 
 
-§ 5.
+§ 5.
 
 The following spring Naomi gave birth to twin boys. With these twins
 really started the epic of her maternity. She was not to be one of those
@@ -3310,7 +3283,7 @@ pain by repetition, she murmured--"What is it, mother?"--and a real,
 breathing, living, crying, little girl was put into her arms.
 
 
-§ 6.
+§ 6.
 
 The positions of husband and wife were now reversed. It was Reuben who
 sulked and gloomed, looking at the baby askance, while Naomi moved in a
@@ -3413,7 +3386,7 @@ room, and told her about the beautiful silk gowns she would wear when
 she grew up.
 
 
-§ 7.
+§ 7.
 
 That autumn he had sown catch-crops of Italian rye grass, which gave the
 stock a good early winter feed. He had grown sharper in his dealings
@@ -3453,14 +3426,14 @@ So Naomi would maunder to her acquaintance; with Reuben she confined
 herself to hints and innuendoes. Sometimes she complained to Mrs.
 Backfield, but her husband's mother was unsympathetic.
 
-"You döan't know when you're in luck," she said as she thumped the
+"You döan't know when you're in luck," she said as she thumped the
 dough--"nothing to do but bath and dress the children, and yet you
 grumble. If you had to work like me--"
 
 "I don't know why you do it. Make Backfield get a girl to help you."
 
 "And pay eight shillings a month when he wants the money so badly! No,
-if a woman can't work fur her son, I döan't see much good in her. Some
+if a woman can't work fur her son, I döan't see much good in her. Some
 women"--rather venomously--"even work fur their husbands."
 
 "You know well enough he won't let me work for him."
@@ -3499,7 +3472,7 @@ Naomi faced him almost spitefully.
 once. It's only because it's Fanny. You don't love her, you----"
 
 "Now none o' that, missus," said Reuben roughly--"you put the child back
-in her cradle, and go and lie down yourself. I döan't want to have to
+in her cradle, and go and lie down yourself. I döan't want to have to
 fetch doctor in to _you_."
 
 Naomi had not acquired the art of flouting him openly. She tearfully put
@@ -3589,7 +3562,7 @@ When the doctor arrived an hour later, his services were needed after
 all. For Naomi gave birth to a little boy at dawn.
 
 
-§ 8.
+§ 8.
 
 Naomi had met her tragedy. In course of time she recovered from her
 confinement, but all the joy of life and motherhood had gone from her.
@@ -3642,7 +3615,7 @@ In those days she could not bear the sound of Harry's fiddle, and he was
 told he must not play it in the house.
 
 
-§ 9.
+§ 9.
 
 The Repeal of the Corn Laws did not have such a bad effect on Odiam as
 Reuben had feared. The harvests in '46 and '47 were unusually good, and
@@ -3720,7 +3693,7 @@ have bin made so liddle and dentical like?"
 
 "But we're a sight smarter than men."
 
-"Yes--that makes up to us a bit, but it döan't do us any real good ...
+"Yes--that makes up to us a bit, but it döan't do us any real good ...
 only helps us git round a man sometimes when we can't git over him."
 
 "Then it does us some good after all. A sad state we'd be in if the men
@@ -3730,7 +3703,7 @@ always had their own way."
 than when he hasn't. Then he's pleased wud you and makes life warm and
 easy for you. It's women as are always going against men wot are
 unhappy. Please men and they'll be good to you and you'll be happy,
-döan't please them and they'll be bad to you and you'll be miserable.
+döan't please them and they'll be bad to you and you'll be miserable.
 But women who're for ever grumbling, and making a fuss about doing wot
 they've got to do whether they like it or not, and are cross-grained
 wives, and unwilling mothers ..." and so on, and so on.
@@ -3739,7 +3712,7 @@ Yet Mrs. Backfield did not, any more than Naomi, understand Reuben's
 great ambition.
 
 
-§ 10.
+§ 10.
 
 That autumn Naomi entered on a time of black depression--an utter gloom
 and weariness of body and mind. It was no mere dull staggering under
@@ -3816,7 +3789,7 @@ scanty, filling their backs with strange pains. She grew fretful, too,
 and her temper was none of the best.
 
 
-§ 11.
+§ 11.
 
 That year Reuben bought ten more acres of Boarzell, and limed them for
 oats. He felt that now he had strength to return to his first battle,
@@ -3868,7 +3841,7 @@ that ought to be enough for any man."
 
 "Aren't five boys enough for you?"
 
-"No--they äun't."
+"No--they äun't."
 
 "Well, of course, if she has a thorough rest from all work and worry,
 and recovers her health in the meantime, I don't say that in three or
@@ -3876,7 +3849,7 @@ four years.... But she's not a strong subject, Mr. Backfield, and you'd
 do well to remember it."
 
 
-§ 12.
+§ 12.
 
 Reuben was very kind to Naomi during her illness. He helped his mother
 to nurse her, and spent by her side all the time he could spare from the
@@ -4052,7 +4025,7 @@ anyone bled on the way. He could not stop to consider even his nearest
 and dearest when his foe had neither mercy nor ruth for him.
 
 
-§ 13.
+§ 13.
 
 It was the August of another year. Reuben's new land on Boarzell was
 tawny with oats. He had at last broken into that defiant earth and taken
@@ -4100,8 +4073,8 @@ children, and he hoped that the one that was coming would be as sturdy.
 "She slept a bit this afternoon. I took her a cup of tea at five, but I
 think the heat tries her."
 
-"I'll go up and see her soon as I've finished--Harry, täake your hand
-out of the baby's pläate."
+"I'll go up and see her soon as I've finished--Harry, täake your hand
+out of the baby's pläate."
 
 As soon as the supper was over, Reuben still munching bread and bacon
 went up to his wife's room. The sunlight was gone, but the sky was
@@ -4148,7 +4121,7 @@ foller--and George."
 
 "Mmm."
 
-"Now döan't you put me off wud Georgina."
+"Now döan't you put me off wud Georgina."
 
 Her mouth stretched mechanically into a smile, and at the same time a
 tear slid out of the corner of her eye, and rolled slowly over her thin
@@ -4156,7 +4129,7 @@ cheeks. In the red, smouldering light of the sky behind Boarzell it
 looked like a tear of blood.
 
 
-§ 14.
+§ 14.
 
 Early in September George arrived. Reuben's face kindled when the doctor
 told him he had escaped Georgina.
@@ -4207,7 +4180,7 @@ The midwife opened the door.
 
 "You can't."
 
-"I must. Hem it! äun't I her husband?"
+"I must. Hem it! äun't I her husband?"
 
 "You can come back in an hour or two. But you must go now--" and she
 shut the door in his face.
@@ -4237,7 +4210,7 @@ don't you keep bees?"
 He sat down at the table which the children had left, and mechanically
 began to eat. His healthy young body claimed its dues, and almost
 without knowing it he cleared the plate before him. Harry sat in the
-chimney corner, murmuring, "Why döan't you kip bees, Reuben? Why döan't
+chimney corner, murmuring, "Why döan't you kip bees, Reuben? Why döan't
 you kip bees?"--showing that he had uttered his thoughts aloud, just as
 the empty platters showed him he had made a very good dinner.
 
@@ -4265,7 +4238,7 @@ sake of the land which was so much more to him than her life.
 
 "My sweet," he murmured, holding her palm against his mouth, "my liddle
 creature, my liddle sweet. Git well, and you shan't never have to go
-through this agäun. Six boys is all I'll want to help me, surelye--and
+through this agäun. Six boys is all I'll want to help me, surelye--and
 you shall rest and be happy, liddle wife, and be proud of your children
 and the gurt things they're going to do."
 
@@ -4351,7 +4324,7 @@ BOOK III
 THE ELDER CHILDREN
 
 
-§ 1.
+§ 1.
 
 For some time after Naomi's death Reuben was sick with grief. Her going
 had been so cruel, so unexpected--and he could not forget how they had
@@ -4416,7 +4389,7 @@ them. Indeed they had no very distinct personalities apart from Odiam,
 though Tilly sometimes looked uncomfortably like Naomi.
 
 
-§ 2.
+§ 2.
 
 Towards the end of '53, Reuben bought a pedigree bull at Rye market. He
 knew that he could increase his importance and effectiveness in the
@@ -4461,7 +4434,7 @@ darned house-linen, they could even make a bed between them.
 Needless to say there was not much playtime at Odiam.
 
 
-§ 3.
+§ 3.
 
 During the next ten years the farm went forward by strides. Reuben
 bought seven more acres of Boarzell in '59, and fourteen in '60. He also
@@ -4541,7 +4514,7 @@ admiration from the man who expected of his own arm and tool to subdue
 it.
 
 
-§ 4.
+§ 4.
 
 The Crimean War had meant the stoppage for a time of Russian grain
 supplies, and Reuben had taken every advantage of this. He had some
@@ -4639,14 +4612,14 @@ Minister of the Established Church, had informed Mr. Munk that he didn't
 want no nonsense put into his boy's head, and spades and spuds were for
 Richard's hands, not books.
 
-"I'm going to mäake a farmer of un, your reverence."
+"I'm going to mäake a farmer of un, your reverence."
 
 "But he says he doesn't want to be a farmer."
 
-"That's why I've got to _mäake_ un one, surelye."
+"That's why I've got to _mäake_ un one, surelye."
 
 
-§ 5.
+§ 5.
 
 Reuben had sold Alfriston King for two hundred pounds, and this new
 capital made possible another enterprise--he bought twenty head of
@@ -4701,7 +4674,7 @@ grammar and all, into his father's hands.
 His new occupation, however, gave him undreamed-of opportunities. One of
 the advantages of shepherding was that it alternated periods of
 strenuous work with others of comparative idleness. During these Richard
-would pore over his "hic, hæc, hoc," and parse and analyse on bits of
+would pore over his "hic, hæc, hoc," and parse and analyse on bits of
 waste paper. He learned very quickly, and was soon casting about for
 means to buy a Greek grammar. He felt that his father could not possibly
 keep him at the farm if he knew both Latin and Greek.
@@ -4715,7 +4688,7 @@ Havelock barking and blustering at one end of the bath, while old
 Comfort poked the animals through it with his crook, and Richard
 received them terrified and evil-smelling at the other side. He grew
 furious because his hands were all sore and blistered with the dip.
-Reuben laughed at him grossly--"Yur granny shall mäake you a complexion
+Reuben laughed at him grossly--"Yur granny shall mäake you a complexion
 wash, surelye!"
 
 Then came the shearing, that queen of feasts. The local band of shearers
@@ -4775,7 +4748,7 @@ Richard studied Latin, and the old Doozes man put in plenty of light,
 easily startled sleep.
 
 
-§ 6.
+§ 6.
 
 Towards the end of February there was a period of intense cold, and some
 heavy falls of snow. Snow was rare in that south-east corner, and all
@@ -4901,7 +4874,7 @@ Richard shook his head.
 "Yes--I know he is ambitious, but surely he doesn't want unwilling
 helpers."
 
-"Oh, he döan't mind who it is, so long as the work's done."
+"Oh, he döan't mind who it is, so long as the work's done."
 
 "And don't you care about the farm?"
 
@@ -4924,7 +4897,7 @@ someday?"
 Richard flushed with pleasure. After all he was not acquitting himself
 so badly with this fine lady. They talked together for a few more
 minutes, the boy trying to clip his speech like hers. He noticed how
-much shorter and crisper it was than his--while he said "döan't," she
+much shorter and crisper it was than his--while he said "döan't," she
 could say "don't" twice.
 
 They were interrupted by the entrance of the Doozes shepherd,
@@ -4946,7 +4919,7 @@ classically:
 "Vale!"
 
 
-§ 7.
+§ 7.
 
 On the whole, the most unsatisfactory of Reuben's sons was Albert.
 Richard might be more irritating, but Albert had that knack of public
@@ -4995,19 +4968,19 @@ seemed to Reuben shockingly unprincipled to defile oneself in any way
 with Radical print. But even without that the thing was criminal and
 offensive.
 
-"I wöan't have no hemmed poetry in my family!" stormed Reuben, for
+"I wöan't have no hemmed poetry in my family!" stormed Reuben, for
 Albert had as usual stage-managed a "scene." "You've got your work to
 do, and you'll justabout do it."
 
-"But fäather, it didn't täake up any of my time, writing that poem. I
+"But fäather, it didn't täake up any of my time, writing that poem. I
 wrote it at my breakfast one mornun two months ago----"
 
 "Yes, that's it--instead of spending twenty minnut at your breakfast,
 you spend forty. You idle away my time wud your hemmed tricks, and I
-wöan't have it, I tell you, I wöan't have it. Lord! when I wur your age,
-I wur running the whole of this farm alone--every ströak of work, I did
+wöan't have it, I tell you, I wöan't have it. Lord! when I wur your age,
+I wur running the whole of this farm alone--every ströak of work, I did
 it. I didn't go wasting time over my meals, and writing rubbidge fur
-low-down Gladstone päapers. Now döan't you go sassing me back, you young
+low-down Gladstone päapers. Now döan't you go sassing me back, you young
 good-fur-nothing, or I'll flay you, surelye!"
 
 Albert could not help a grudging admiration of his father. Reuben could
@@ -5057,12 +5030,12 @@ He cut up an old shirt into pocket-handkerchiefs. He began to model his
 speech on Miss Bardon's--clipping it, and purging it ridiculously.
 Reuben would roar with laughter.
 
-"'Pray am I to remove this dirt?'--Did you ever hear such präaperness
+"'Pray am I to remove this dirt?'--Did you ever hear such präaperness
 and denticalness?--all short and soft lik the Squire himself. You wash
 out all that mucky sharn, my lad, if that's wot you mean."
 
 
-§ 8.
+§ 8.
 
 Robert Backfield was a member of Peasmarsh choir. He had a good, ringing
 bass voice, which had attracted the clerk's notice, and though Reuben
@@ -5144,7 +5117,7 @@ constellations, and Charles drove his waggon along a golden road, and
 sheep ate from a flickering trough under a great tree of lamps.
 
 
-§ 9.
+§ 9.
 
 Bessie tinted the world for Robert like a sunrise. All through the day
 he carried memories of lightless woods, of fields hushed in the swale,
@@ -5295,7 +5268,7 @@ Suddenly a light kindled in the little house. Bessie slipped from him,
 and ran up the pathway into the dark gape of the door.
 
 
-§ 10.
+§ 10.
 
 In August Reuben bought ten more acres of Boarzell, and the yoke
 tightened on Odiam. All had now been pressed into service, even the
@@ -5332,7 +5305,7 @@ dawdled, slipped clear of what he could, and once he actually asked
 Reuben for wages! This was unheard-of--not one of Reuben's sons had ever
 dreamed of such a thing before.
 
-"Wages!--wot are you wanting wages fur, young räascal? You're working to
+"Wages!--wot are you wanting wages fur, young räascal? You're working to
 save money, not to earn it. You wait till all yon Moor is mine, and
 Odiam's the biggest farm in Sussex, before you ask fur wages."
 
@@ -5411,7 +5384,7 @@ which he had defrauded Odiam. His love for Bessie, his degraded and
 treacherous hopes, filled the father with shame. Had he then lived so
 meanly that such mean ambitions should inspire his son?
 
-"A cowman's girl!" he groaned, "at Eggs Hole, too, where they döan't
+"A cowman's girl!" he groaned, "at Eggs Hole, too, where they döan't
 know plums from damsons! Marry her! I'd sooner have Albert and his
 wenches."
 
@@ -5423,7 +5396,7 @@ something wud it or when there's nothing in it. But marrying cowmen's
 girls wudout a penny in their pockets, we can't afford to kip that sort
 o' love at Odiam."
 
-"Fäather," pleaded Robert, "you loved my mother."
+"Fäather," pleaded Robert, "you loved my mother."
 
 "Yes--but she wur a well-born lady wud a fortun. D'you think I'd have
 let myself love her if she'd bin poor and a cowman's daughter? Not me,
@@ -5444,7 +5417,7 @@ and very unmanly into his eyes.
 finish his sentence.
 
 
-§ 11.
+§ 11.
 
 For the next two or three days the boy was desperate. His manhood was in
 a trap. He thought of a dozen plans for breaking free, but whichever way
@@ -5479,7 +5452,7 @@ Albert was working with him in the stable, and he felt that he could
 persuade his brother to hold his tongue if he disappeared for an hour or
 two.
 
-"I want to go into Peasmarsh," he said to Albert; "if Fäather comes and
+"I want to go into Peasmarsh," he said to Albert; "if Fäather comes and
 asks where I am, you can always tell him I've gone over to Grandturzel
 about that colt, can't you now?"
 
@@ -5504,17 +5477,17 @@ instalments of his tragedy. Bessie was very brave, she lifted her eyes
 to his, and would not let them falter, but he felt her little coarse
 fingers trembling in his hand.
 
-"I döan't know what I'm to do, my dear," he mumbled; "I think the best
+"I döan't know what I'm to do, my dear," he mumbled; "I think the best
 thing 'ud be fur me to git work on a farm somewheres away from here, and
 then maybe in time I cud put a liddle bit of money by, and you cud join
 me."
 
-"Oh, döan't leave me, Robert."
+"Oh, döan't leave me, Robert."
 
 For the first time the courage dimmed in her eyes.
 
-"Wot else am I to do?" he exclaimed wretchedly; "'täun't even as if I
-cud go on seeing you here. Oh, Bessie! I can't even täake you to the
+"Wot else am I to do?" he exclaimed wretchedly; "'täun't even as if I
+cud go on seeing you here. Oh, Bessie! I can't even täake you to the
 Fair on Thursday!"
 
 "Wot does a liddle thing lik that count when it's all so miserable?"
@@ -5529,10 +5502,10 @@ Fair on Thursday!"
 The anthem crashed gaily into their sorrow, and grasping the hymn-sheet
 they sang together.
 
-"Wöan't you be never coming here no more?" whispered Bessie in the next
+"Wöan't you be never coming here no more?" whispered Bessie in the next
 pause.
 
-"Depends on if my fäather catches me or not."
+"Depends on if my fäather catches me or not."
 
 He drank in the heat and stuffiness of the little room as a man might
 drink water in a desert, not knowing when the next well should be. He
@@ -5588,9 +5561,9 @@ Bessie had, however, already taken the matter out of his hands by
 saying--"Thank you kindly, sir."
 
 "You see, this is my very best gown," she confided to Robert outside
-the house, "and I döan't know wot I shud do if anything happened to it."
+the house, "and I döan't know wot I shud do if anything happened to it."
 
-"Well, you're not to täake that coat back to Flightshot yourself. Give
+"Well, you're not to täake that coat back to Flightshot yourself. Give
 it to me when we come to Eggs Hole, and I'll see that he has it."
 
 "Very well, dear," she answered meekly.
@@ -5607,7 +5580,7 @@ On arriving at Odiam, Robert was seized by his father and flogged within
 an inch of his life.
 
 
-§ 12.
+§ 12.
 
 Reuben thought that he had efficiently broken his son's rebellion. All
 the next day Robert seemed utterly cowed. He was worn out by the misery
@@ -5693,7 +5666,7 @@ with his father--he was more afraid of Reuben than of all the police in
 Sussex.
 
 
-§ 13.
+§ 13.
 
 All that day he expected to hear that the theft had been discovered. The
 Squire would be sure to remember his pocket-book and where he had put
@@ -5764,10 +5737,10 @@ having explained to him the right and the wrong way of sowing beans, and
 enlarged on the wickedness of Radicals in general and Gladstone in
 particular, returned to Bardon's loss.
 
-"Of course he äun't sure as it wur stolen--he may have dropped it. But
-policeman döan't think that's likely."
+"Of course he äun't sure as it wur stolen--he may have dropped it. But
+policeman döan't think that's likely."
 
-"Then policeman's bin töald about it?" came faintly from Robert.
+"Then policeman's bin töald about it?" came faintly from Robert.
 
 "Surelye! I wur spikking to him over at the Cocks. I said to him as I
 wur sartain as one of those lousy Workman's Institute lads of his had
@@ -5849,7 +5822,7 @@ over the terrible bank-note, which was accepted without comment.
 Fate still allowed him to run ahead.
 
 
-§ 14.
+§ 14.
 
 Thursday broke clear and windy--little curls of cloud flew high against
 spreads of watery blue, and the wind raced over Boarzell, smelling of
@@ -6002,7 +5975,7 @@ at the back of it all the jig, jig, jig of Harry's tune.
 Further on, in the secrecy of the tents and caravans, the dusk became
 full of cowering shapes, sometimes slipping and sliding about apart,
 sometimes blotted together ... there were whispers, rustlings,
-strugglings, low cries of "döan't" and "adone do!"--the sound of kisses
+strugglings, low cries of "döan't" and "adone do!"--the sound of kisses
 ... kisses ... they followed Robert all the way to Meridiana's tent,
 where, standing in the brazier glow, and flushed besides with crimson of
 her own, stood Bessie.
@@ -6048,7 +6021,7 @@ Then suddenly a heavy hand fell on Robert's shoulder, and a voice said:
 containing bonds and money from Squire Ralph Bardon of Flightshot."
 
 
-§ 15.
+§ 15.
 
 With many tears, and the help of the kindly farmer's daughter at Eggs
 Hole, who acted as penwoman, Bessie wrote a letter to Robert in the
@@ -6177,7 +6150,7 @@ when Backfield came out of the Court-house and walked through the
 people, his head high, his step firm, his back straight.
 
 
-§ 16.
+§ 16.
 
 The next few weeks were for Reuben full of bitter, secret humiliation.
 He might show a proud face and a straight back to the world, but his
@@ -6254,7 +6227,7 @@ and his wounded pride found balm in the thought of founding a local
 agricultural party of which he would be the inspirer and head.
 
 
-§ 17.
+§ 17.
 
 Reuben began to attend the Tory candidate's meetings. Colonel MacDonald
 was not a local man, any more than Captain MacKinnon, but he had some
@@ -6388,7 +6361,7 @@ and the Captain was reported to have said that the Liberal party ought
 to offer a knighthood to anyone who would poison Backfield's beer.
 
 
-§ 18.
+§ 18.
 
 So time passed till within a week of polling day. The feeling in the
 district grew more and more tense--no prominent member of either party
@@ -6510,7 +6483,7 @@ that were broken up in disorder. Colonel MacDonald was howled down, and
 Reuben came home every evening his clothes spattered with rotten eggs.
 
 
-§ 19.
+§ 19.
 
 Polling day broke gloomily on Rye Tories. The country voters were
 brought into town at the Candidates' expense, having received according
@@ -6593,7 +6566,7 @@ market-place.
 In the Court-house the beaten Conservatives heard the shouts and turned
 fiercely--on one another.
 
-"It's that hemmed gëate of yourn--lost everything!" cried Reuben.
+"It's that hemmed gëate of yourn--lost everything!" cried Reuben.
 
 "By God, it's not my gate--it's your wheat."
 
@@ -6606,7 +6579,7 @@ really touches them is brought forward, the whole campaign drops to
 pieces."
 
 "It's unaccountable easy to put the blame on me, when it's your hemmed
-gëate----"
+gëate----"
 
 "I tell you, sir, it's your damned wheat----"
 
@@ -6617,7 +6590,7 @@ leadership, but now stood scowling at him and muttering to themselves.
 "My son!"
 
 "Yes," said Coalbran of Doozes, "you know as well as us as how it wur
-your Albert wrote them verses about the gëate, wot have bust up
+your Albert wrote them verses about the gëate, wot have bust up
 everything."
 
 "You're a liar!" cried Reuben.
@@ -6654,7 +6627,7 @@ Rye Foreign.
 dirty politics again--from this day forward--so help me God!"
 
 
-§ 20.
+§ 20.
 
 On reaching Odiam, Reuben did not go into the kitchen where his children
 were gathered, expectant and curious. He went straight upstairs. Caro,
@@ -6690,7 +6663,7 @@ from his face, and banged the papers down in front of her.
 
 Tilly was frightened.
 
-"It's--it's only poetry, fäather."
+"It's--it's only poetry, fäather."
 
 "Read me some of it."
 
@@ -6711,11 +6684,11 @@ little cry.
 
 "It's true, then! Oh Lard! it's true!"
 
-"Wot, fäather?"
+"Wot, fäather?"
 
 "Them's Albert's verses right enough?"
 
-"Yes, fäather, but----"
+"Yes, fäather, but----"
 
 "Fetch him here."
 
@@ -6724,7 +6697,7 @@ the great Gate controversy, and could not understand why Reuben was so
 angry with Albert. The verses seemed to her quite harmless, they were
 not even about love. However, she could not disobey her father, so she
 ran and fetched Albert out of the corn-chamber, begging him to be
-careful what he said, "fur fäather's unaccountable vrothered to-night
+careful what he said, "fur fäather's unaccountable vrothered to-night
 about something."
 
 "How did the Election go?"
@@ -6734,14 +6707,14 @@ about something."
 "Oh, you gals! Well, I expect that's wot's the matter. The Liberal's got
 in."
 
-"But why should that mäake fäather angry wud you?"
+"But why should that mäake fäather angry wud you?"
 
 Albert stuck out his chest and looked important, as he invariably did
 before an encounter with Reuben, in spite of the fact that these always
 ended most ingloriously as far as he was concerned.
 
 "He's bin reading some poetry of yours, Bertie," continued his sister,
-"and he's justabout dreadful, all his clöathes tore about, and a nasty
+"and he's justabout dreadful, all his clöathes tore about, and a nasty
 mess of blood and yaller stuff on his face."
 
 Albert suddenly began to look uneasy.
@@ -6749,7 +6722,7 @@ Albert suddenly began to look uneasy.
 "Oh Lard! perhaps I'd better bolt fur it.--No, I'll square him out.
 You'll stand by me, Tilly?"
 
-"Yes, but döan't mäake him angry--he might beat you."
+"Yes, but döan't mäake him angry--he might beat you."
 
 Bertie's pride was wounded by this suggestion, which was, however,
 soundly based on precedent, and he entered the kitchen with something
@@ -6781,15 +6754,15 @@ unsuccessfully to resume his swagger.
 this house--and out you go to-night; I'll have no Radical hogs on my
 farm. I'm shut of you!"
 
-"Fäather!" cried Tilly.
+"Fäather!" cried Tilly.
 
 "Hold your tongue! Does anyone here think I'm going to have a Radical
-fur my son?--and a tedious lying traitor, too, wot helps his fäather's
+fur my son?--and a tedious lying traitor, too, wot helps his fäather's
 enemies, and busts up the purtiest election that wur ever fought at Rye.
 Do you say you didn't write those lousy verses wot have lost us
 everything?"
 
-"No--I döan't say it. I did write 'em. But it's all your fault that I
+"No--I döan't say it. I did write 'em. But it's all your fault that I
 did--so you've no right to miscall me."
 
 "My fault!"--Reuben's jaw dropped as he faced the upstart.
@@ -6801,7 +6774,7 @@ me all sorts o' things if I'd write fur them."
 "Wot sort o' things?"
 
 "Mr. Hedges, the Liberal agent, promised that if I'd write fur him, he'd
-git me work on a London paper, and I could mäake my fortune and be free
+git me work on a London paper, and I could mäake my fortune and be free
 of all this."
 
 "All wot?"
@@ -6815,25 +6788,25 @@ now quivering with passion, hatred seemed to have purged him of terror.
 yourn wot's the curse of us all. Here we're made to work, and never
 given a penny fur our labour--we're treated worse than the lowest
 farm-hands, like dogs, we are. Robert stole money to git away, and can
-you wonder that when I see my chance I should täake it. I'm no
-Radical--I döan't care one way or t'other--but when the Radicals offered
+you wonder that when I see my chance I should täake it. I'm no
+Radical--I döan't care one way or t'other--but when the Radicals offered
 me money to write verses fur 'em, I wurn't going to say 'no.' They
-promised to mäake my fortun, and save me from you and your old farm,
+promised to mäake my fortun, and save me from you and your old farm,
 which I wish was in hell."
 
 "Stop your ranting and tell me how the hogs got you."
 
 "I met Mr. Hedges at the pub----"
 
-"Wur it you or him wot thought of the Scott's Float Gëate?"
+"Wur it you or him wot thought of the Scott's Float Gëate?"
 
-"I heard of it from old Pitcher down at Loose, and I töald Hedges. I
+"I heard of it from old Pitcher down at Loose, and I töald Hedges. I
 justabout----"
 
 A terrific blow from Reuben cut him short.
 
 
-§ 21.
+§ 21.
 
 The rest of the family had gone to bed, though scarcely to sleep. Reuben
 had washed the blood and filth off his face, and had stripped to his
@@ -6905,7 +6878,7 @@ BOOK IV
 TREACHERIES
 
 
-§ 1.
+§ 1.
 
 Reuben's domestic catastrophes might be summed up in the statement that
 he had lost two farm hands. It is true that Albert had never been much
@@ -7023,7 +6996,7 @@ word "lover," uttered mysteriously and sometimes with an odd little
 sigh.
 
 
-§ 2.
+§ 2.
 
 That spring the news flew round from inn to inn and farm to farm that
 Realf of Grandturzel had bought a shire stallion, and meant to start
@@ -7058,10 +7031,10 @@ do his reaping and hay-making by machinery.
 
 Realf was about twenty-five, a tall, well-set-up young fellow, with
 certain elegancies about him. In business he was of a simple,
-open-temperament, genuinely proud of his farm, and naïve enough to boast
+open-temperament, genuinely proud of his farm, and naïve enough to boast
 of its progress to Backfield himself.
 
-Indeed he was so naïve that it was not till Reuben had once or twice
+Indeed he was so naïve that it was not till Reuben had once or twice
 sneered at him in public that he realised there was any friction between
 Grandturzel and Odiam, and even then he scarcely grasped its
 importance, for one night at the Cocks, Coalbran said rather maliciously
@@ -7071,8 +7044,8 @@ to Reuben:
 
 "My gals! Neither of 'em. Wot d'you mean?"
 
-"Only that he walks home wud them from church every Sunday, and föalkses
-are beginning to wonder which he's going to mäake Mrs. Realf, surelye!"
+"Only that he walks home wud them from church every Sunday, and föalkses
+are beginning to wonder which he's going to mäake Mrs. Realf, surelye!"
 
 Reuben turned brick-red with indignation.
 
@@ -7082,7 +7055,7 @@ Reuben scowled thunderously at Coalbran, whom he had never forgiven
 since the scene in Rye Court-house.
 
 "He slanders my sons and he slanders my daughters," he muttered to
-himself as he went home, "and I reckon as this time it äun't true."
+himself as he went home, "and I reckon as this time it äun't true."
 
 However, next Sunday he astonished his family by saying he would
 accompany them to church. Hitherto Reuben's churchmanship had been
@@ -7149,7 +7122,7 @@ When the congregation rose to sing Reuben held his head proudly and his
 shoulders square. He felt himself a match for any youngster.
 
 
-§ 3.
+§ 3.
 
 That summer old Mrs. Backfield became completely bedridden. The
 gratefulness of sunshine to her old bones was counteracted by the clammy
@@ -7243,10 +7216,10 @@ workbasket.
 "Wot?" he asked her, and she, in her dream, felt a spasm of delight, for
 it was all happening so naturally--it must be true.
 
-"About fäather being dead, and you being blind, and Ben having the
+"About fäather being dead, and you being blind, and Ben having the
 farm."
 
-"Of course it's a dream--fäather äun't dead, and I äun't blind, and
+"Of course it's a dream--fäather äun't dead, and I äun't blind, and
 Ben's picking nuts over at Puddingcake."
 
 "You couldn't spik to me lik this if it wur a dream, Harry--could you,
@@ -7272,7 +7245,7 @@ Outside the great fatigueless machine of steel and iron sang
 on--"Urrr-um--Urrr-um--Urrr-um."
 
 
-§ 4.
+§ 4.
 
 The girls cried a great deal at their grandmother's death--she had never
 taken up enough room in the boys' lives for them to miss her much. As
@@ -7351,15 +7324,15 @@ disgust.
 "I'm not going to fight a man old enough to be my father," he said,
 flushing.
 
-"Ho, äun't you?--Come on, you puppy-dog, and see fur yourself if you
-need täake pity on my old age."
+"Ho, äun't you?--Come on, you puppy-dog, and see fur yourself if you
+need täake pity on my old age."
 
 He had flung off his coat, and squared up to Realf, who, seeing no
 alternative, began to strip.
 
 Peter interposed:
 
-"Let me täake him on, fäather. I'll show him a thing or two."
+"Let me täake him on, fäather. I'll show him a thing or two."
 
 Reuben turned on him savagely.
 
@@ -7421,7 +7394,7 @@ help. He flung open the door, and nearly fell over Tilly who was
 cowering behind it.
 
 
-§ 5.
+§ 5.
 
 "Here--bring some water!" cried Peter, too much relieved to see her to
 be surprised at it.
@@ -7443,7 +7416,7 @@ him.
 
 "I'm going home," he mumbled through his bruised lips.
 
-"I'll täake you," said Pete cheerily.
+"I'll täake you," said Pete cheerily.
 
 But Realf of Grandturzel shook his head. His humiliation was more than
 he could bear. Without another look at Pete or Tilly, or at Reuben
@@ -7460,8 +7433,8 @@ wrinkled with horror at the bloodstains on the floor and at Reuben whose
 face was all bruised and swollen and shiny with the juice of the raw
 meat. Pete saw her shudder, and resented it.
 
-"It wur a präaper fight," he declared. "You want to manage them feet of
-yourn a bit slicker, fäather--but you wur justabout smart wud your
+"It wur a präaper fight," he declared. "You want to manage them feet of
+yourn a bit slicker, fäather--but you wur justabout smart wud your
 fists."
 
 Tilly's blood ran thick with disgust; she turned from them
@@ -7494,7 +7467,7 @@ speak, but her eyes were blessing him, and then suddenly both her hands
 were in his.
 
 
-§ 6.
+§ 6.
 
 Early in the next year Sir Miles Bardon died, and his son Ralph became
 Squire. Reuben had now, as he put it, lived through three Bardons. He
@@ -7544,7 +7517,7 @@ on the western borders of Peasmarsh. Reuben went over to get his
 "character" from Jury the tenant--and that was how he met Alice Jury.
 
 
-§ 7.
+§ 7.
 
 The door was opened to him by a tall young woman in a grey dress covered
 by an apron. Reuben was struck by that apron, for it was not the sacking
@@ -7559,7 +7532,7 @@ narrowest and the liveliest he had ever seen.
 
 "I'm sorry--father's not at home," she said in answer to his question.
 
-"But I töald him as I wur coming over--it's about that Handshut."
+"But I töald him as I wur coming over--it's about that Handshut."
 
 She smiled.
 
@@ -7613,7 +7586,7 @@ being able to read and write."
 
 "But don't you think he does?"
 
-"No--I döan't. I'm all agäunst teaching poor people anything and setting
+"No--I döan't. I'm all agäunst teaching poor people anything and setting
 them above theirselves. It's different fur their betters. Now I've got
 six boys, and they can all read and write and cast accounts."
 
@@ -7654,7 +7627,7 @@ of killing a pig--surelye!"
 
 "Well, as boys, as sons, not as farm-servants."
 
-"I döan't never think of them that way. One's no good to me wudout
+"I döan't never think of them that way. One's no good to me wudout
 t'other."
 
 Alice Jury said nothing, and Reuben began to feel vaguely uncomfortable.
@@ -7666,7 +7639,7 @@ suddenly rose to his feet.
 "But father won't be long now."
 
 "I'm sorry--I can't wait. I've a load of field-bean coming in. I'll be
-round agäun to-morrow."
+round agäun to-morrow."
 
 "What time?--and I'll promise father shall be here to see you."
 
@@ -7682,7 +7655,7 @@ against the east.
 "What's that?" she asked.
 
 
-§ 8.
+§ 8.
 
 Reuben came away from Cheat Land with odd feelings of annoyance,
 perplexity, and exhilaration. Alice Jury was queer, and she had insulted
@@ -7700,9 +7673,9 @@ could not explain it. Her personal beauty was negligible--"a liddle
 stick of a thing," he called her; their conversation had been limited
 almost entirely to her tactless questions and his forbearing answers.
 
-"She äun't my sort," he mumbled as he walked home, "she äun't at all my
+"She äun't my sort," he mumbled as he walked home, "she äun't at all my
 sort. Dudn't know where Odiam wur--never heard of Boarzell--oh, yes,
-seems as she remembered hearing something when I töald her"--and
+seems as she remembered hearing something when I töald her"--and
 Reuben's lip curled ironically.
 
 He had not told her of his ambitions with regard to Boarzell, and now he
@@ -7720,7 +7693,7 @@ surprised to see him.
 "You said you were coming at eleven. I'm afraid father's out again."
 
 "I wur passing this way, so thought I'd call in on the chance," said
-Reuben guiltily--"I döan't mind waiting."
+Reuben guiltily--"I döan't mind waiting."
 
 She called a long-legged boy who was weeding among the turnips, and bade
 him go over to Puddingcake and fetch the master. Then she led the way to
@@ -7754,7 +7727,7 @@ He leaned towards her over the back of his chair.
 "Yes, I dare say."
 
 "Could you do it wud all the colours on it and all that?--all the pinks
-you git on it sometimes, and the lovely yaller the gorse mäakes?"
+you git on it sometimes, and the lovely yaller the gorse mäakes?"
 
 She was surprised at his enthusiasm. His eyes were kindling, and a blush
 was creeping under his sunburn.
@@ -7765,7 +7738,7 @@ was creeping under his sunburn.
 
 She smiled. "Perhaps I could. But why do you think so much of Boarzell?"
 
-"Because I'm going to mäake it mine."
+"Because I'm going to mäake it mine."
 
 "Yours!"
 
@@ -7810,7 +7783,7 @@ emotion--and the white flame of antagonism which divided them seemed at
 the same time to fuse them, melt them into each other.
 
 
-§ 9.
+§ 9.
 
 Reuben was going through a new experience. For the first time in his
 life he had fallen under the dominion of a personality. From his boyhood
@@ -7844,7 +7817,7 @@ wrangle together by the hour.
 gives you."
 
 "I agree with you there," said Reuben, "it's not wot life gives that's
-good, it's wot you täake out of it."
+good, it's wot you täake out of it."
 
 "I don't see that. Suppose that because I liked that girl's face in the
 picture I tore it out and kept it for myself, I should only spoil the
@@ -7856,15 +7829,15 @@ rest."
 "Now don't pretend to be stupid--don't pretend you can't understand
 anything but turnips."
 
-"And döan't pretend you can't understand naun but picturs. A good solid
+"And döan't pretend you can't understand naun but picturs. A good solid
 turnup in real life is worth a dozen pretty gals in picturs."
 
 "That's right--have the courage of your earthiness. But don't try to
 make me think that when you look out of the window at Boarzell, you
 don't see the sky beyond it."
 
-"And döan't you try and make out as when you're looking at the sky you
-döan't see Boarzell standing in between."
+"And döan't you try and make out as when you're looking at the sky you
+döan't see Boarzell standing in between."
 
 "I don't try and make it out. I see your point of view, but it's only
 'in between' me--and you--and something greater."
@@ -7880,7 +7853,7 @@ come from the remotest, most exalted part of her. The gulfs between
 their points of view never gaped so wide as when she laughed.
 
 
-§ 10.
+§ 10.
 
 Reuben's constant visits to Cheat Land were soon noticed at Odiam, and
 every advantage was taken of them. A period of licence set in. Richard
@@ -7954,7 +7927,7 @@ same time she could not help envying their freedom, though one enjoyed
 it as a beggar and the other as a felon.
 
 
-§ 11.
+§ 11.
 
 At last the crisis came--through George, the youngest, least-considered
 son at Odiam. He had always been a weakling, as if Naomi had passed into
@@ -7994,9 +7967,9 @@ not been in to supper.
 
 "Have you looked in the new field?"
 
-"Yes--Benjamin went round. But he äun't there."
+"Yes--Benjamin went round. But he äun't there."
 
-"Well, I döan't know where he is."
+"Well, I döan't know where he is."
 
 "Reckon he's fallen down in a fit somewhere and died."
 
@@ -8004,8 +7977,8 @@ Tilly was not looking at all like Naomi to-night.
 
 "Nonsense," said Reuben, resenting her manner.
 
-"It äun't nonsense. I always know when his fits are coming on because
-he's tired and can't work präaperly. He was like that to-day. And
+"It äun't nonsense. I always know when his fits are coming on because
+he's tired and can't work präaperly. He was like that to-day. And
 you--you drove him out."
 
 Reuben had never been spoken to like this by his daughter. He turned on
@@ -8103,7 +8076,7 @@ he did, had sprung to his feet.
 "I'll have wheat growing here in a twelvemonth!" he shouted.
 
 
-§ 12.
+§ 12.
 
 The dawn broke over Boarzell like a reconciliation. The clamouring
 voices of wind and trees were still, and only a low sobbing came now and
@@ -8127,18 +8100,18 @@ his murderer's hair.
 
 "Is he dead?" asked Reuben.
 
-"Yes, mäaster," said Boorman.
+"Yes, mäaster," said Boorman.
 
 Richard's mouth twisted in contemptuous silence--Handshut being young
 and silly was crying.
 
 "He wurn't on the new land," continued Boorman, "he'd fallen into the
 ditch by Socknersh palings--that's why we cudn't find un. Reckon as he'd
-felt the fitses coming on un, and tried to git höame, pore souly."
+felt the fitses coming on un, and tried to git höame, pore souly."
 
 "When did you find him?"
 
-"Half an hour agone. He'd bin dead for hours, mäaster. He must have
+"Half an hour agone. He'd bin dead for hours, mäaster. He must have
 choked in the ditch--see, his mouth is full of mud."
 
 Reuben drew back with a shiver. He limped behind the little procession
@@ -8169,7 +8142,7 @@ to bully her now.
 "Get me some tea," he said roughly, "I'm cold."
 
 
-§ 13.
+§ 13.
 
 Though there had been no open rupture, from that day forward Odiam was
 divided into two camps. On one side were Reuben and Pete, on the other,
@@ -8266,7 +8239,7 @@ Tilly sighed.
 "The law ought to suppress such men--it ought to be a criminal offence
 to revert to type--the primordial gorilla."
 
-"But fäather's a clever man--Albert always used to say so."
+"But fäather's a clever man--Albert always used to say so."
 
 "Yes, in a cunning, brutish sort of way--like a gorilla when he's set
 his heart on a particular cocoanut. Boarzell's his cocoanut, and he's
@@ -8294,13 +8267,13 @@ worshipful--"she's an angel, who's raised me out of hell. I shall never
 be able to repay her, but she doesn't expect it. All she wants is my
 success."
 
-"I wish Caro or Jemmy cud meet someone like her. I döan't think as Pete
+"I wish Caro or Jemmy cud meet someone like her. I döan't think as Pete
 minds."
 
 "No, he's quite the young gorilla. Now I must be off, Tilly. I'll write
 to you."
 
-"Oh, wöan't fäather be in a taking!"
+"Oh, wöan't fäather be in a taking!"
 
 "I reckon--I expect he will. But don't you mind him, little sister. He
 isn't worth it."
@@ -8314,7 +8287,7 @@ He stooped and kissed her.
 ... And he was gone--walking past the window in a top-hat.
 
 
-§ 14.
+§ 14.
 
 It would be mere politeness to describe as a "taking" Reuben's condition
 when he heard Richard had gone. He was in a stamping, bellowing,
@@ -8344,7 +8317,7 @@ struggles.
 
 "The hound!" he cried, striking his fists together, "the miserable,
 cowardy hound!--gone and left me--gone to be a gentleman, the lousy pig.
-Oh, Lard, I wish as I had him in these hands o' mine!--I'd mäake a
+Oh, Lard, I wish as I had him in these hands o' mine!--I'd mäake a
 gentleman of him!"
 
 Alice, as he expected, had caustic for him rather than balm.
@@ -8380,7 +8353,7 @@ alone on the Moor?--or would Richard have taken advantage of a
 neighbour's charity to escape from you? Don't you see that your ambition
 has driven you to make slaves of your children?"
 
-"Well, they wöan't wark fur me of their free will. Lard knows I've tried
+"Well, they wöan't wark fur me of their free will. Lard knows I've tried
 to interest 'em...."
 
 "But how can you expect them to be interested? Your ambition means
@@ -8399,7 +8372,7 @@ shudn't they?"
 give them up by force. You've no right to starve and deny other people
 as you have to starve and deny yourself."
 
-"I döan't see that. Wot I can do, they can."
+"I döan't see that. Wot I can do, they can."
 
 "But--as experience has taught you--they won't. You can see now what
 your slave-driving's brought you to--you've lost your slaves."
@@ -8409,7 +8382,7 @@ healing after all--"Robert wur a fool wot didn't know how to steal a
 ten-pound note, Albert wur always mooning and wasting his time, and
 George wur a pore thing not worth his keep. As for Richard--that
 Richard--who wants a stuck-up, dentical, high-nosed, genteel swell about
-the pläace? I reckon as I'm well shut of the whole four of 'em. They
+the pläace? I reckon as I'm well shut of the whole four of 'em. They
 wurn't worth the food they ate, surelye!"
 
 "That's what strikes me as so pathetic."
@@ -8439,31 +8412,31 @@ poor little George, just because he was weak and unlike the rest, he
 might have been more to you than them all. Then there's your brother
 Harry----"
 
-"Come, come--stick to the truth. I äun't to blame for Harry."
+"Come, come--stick to the truth. I äun't to blame for Harry."
 
 "But can't you see that he's the chief part of the tragedy you're
 bringing on yourself and everyone?--He's the type, he's the chorus, the
 commentary on every act. Reuben, can't you see--oh, why won't you
 see?--he's you, yourself, as you really are!"
 
-"Nonsense!--döan't be a fool, my gal."
+"Nonsense!--döan't be a fool, my gal."
 
 "Yes--you--blind, crazy with your ambition, repulsive and alone in it.
 Don't you see?"
 
-He smiled grimly--"I döan't."
+He smiled grimly--"I döan't."
 
 "No--you don't see this hideous thing that's pursuing you, that's
 stripping you of all that ought to be yours, that's making you miss a
 hundred beautiful things, that's driving you past all your joys--this
 Boarzell...."
 
-"--äun't driving me, anyhow. I'm fighting it."
+"--äun't driving me, anyhow. I'm fighting it."
 
 "No," said Alice. "It's I who am fighting Boarzell."
 
 
-§ 15.
+§ 15.
 
 Early the next year, Tilly married Realf of Grandturzel.
 
@@ -8560,7 +8533,7 @@ well-fed and well-beloved. He hated her and called her a harlot--because
 she had betrayed Odiam for hire and trafficked in its shame.
 
 
-§ 16.
+§ 16.
 
 He had been forced to engage a woman to help Caro in the house, and also
 a shepherd for Richard's work. His family had been whittled down to
@@ -8669,7 +8642,7 @@ about Boarzell?"
 maniac of you. You think of nothing--absolutely nothing--but a miserable
 rubbish-heap that most people would be throwing their old kettles on."
 
-"That's just the point, my gal. Where most föalkses 'ud be throwing old
+"That's just the point, my gal. Where most föalkses 'ud be throwing old
 kettles, I shall be growing wheat."
 
 "And what good will that do you?"
@@ -8679,15 +8652,15 @@ kettles, I shall be growing wheat."
 "Yes, grain that's fertilised with the rotting remains of all that ought
 to have made your life good and sweet."
 
-"You wöan't understand. There's naun in the world means anything to me
+"You wöan't understand. There's naun in the world means anything to me
 but my farm. Oh, Alice, if you could only see things wud my eyes and
-stand beside me instead of agäunst me."
+stand beside me instead of agäunst me."
 
 "Then there would be no more friendship between us. What unites us is
 the fact that we are fighting each other."
 
-"Döan't talk rubbidge, liddle gal. It's because I see, all the fight
-there is in you that I'd sooner you fought for me than agäunst me.
+"Döan't talk rubbidge, liddle gal. It's because I see, all the fight
+there is in you that I'd sooner you fought for me than agäunst me.
 Couldn't you try, Alice?"
 
 His voice had sunk very low, almost to sweetness. A soft flurry of pink
@@ -8752,7 +8725,7 @@ untamed, still his hope, still his battle. And Alice?... He gave her a
 look, and left her.
 
 
-"I once töald a boy of mine," he said to himself as he crossed the Moor,
+"I once töald a boy of mine," he said to himself as he crossed the Moor,
 "that the sooner he found he could do wudout love the better.... Well, I
 reckon I'm not going to be any weaker than my words."
 
@@ -8764,7 +8737,7 @@ BOOK V
 ALMOST UNDER
 
 
-§ 1.
+§ 1.
 
 Reuben did not go back to Cheat Land for several weeks. Those five
 minutes had been too much for him. He would never again risk putting
@@ -8858,7 +8831,7 @@ that wet red mouth, which from away across the room seemed to pout
 towards him.
 
 
-§ 2.
+§ 2.
 
 Supper was a quiet meal. Old Jury and his invalid wife sat at each end
 of the table, while Alice did most of the helping and waiting. They
@@ -8887,7 +8860,7 @@ unbusiness-like way, into the lane which wound past Cheat Land and round
 the hanger of Boarzell, to the farms of the Brede Valley.
 
 Rose, a little to his surprise, began to chatter volubly. She talked
-very much like a child, with naïve comments, about simple things. She
+very much like a child, with naïve comments, about simple things. She
 asked trivial questions, and screamed with delight when some
 dusk-blinded bird flew against her breast and dashed down heavily into
 the ruts. She exclaimed at the crimson moon which rose behind the hedge
@@ -8914,7 +8887,7 @@ her head back in a kind of ecstasy, giving him the white expanse of her
 neck, which he kissed, giddy with a soft fragrance that rose from her
 clothes, reminding him a little of clover.
 
-She was so obviously and naïvely delighted, that when he drew himself
+She was so obviously and naïvely delighted, that when he drew himself
 up, his idea of her was again one of extreme childishness. And yet it
 was evident that she was used to kisses, and that he had kissed her at
 her own unspoken invitation.
@@ -9006,7 +8979,7 @@ nibbled them with her white teeth, which were small and even, except for
 the two canines, which were pointed like a little animal's.
 
 
-§ 3.
+§ 3.
 
 During the next day or two Reuben thought a great deal about Rose
 Lardner. He made covert enquiries about her in the neighbourhood. He
@@ -9085,7 +9058,7 @@ Rose to his shoulder. He once carried her on his shoulder all the way
 from Tide Barn to the beginning of Starvecrow lane.
 
 
-§ 4.
+§ 4.
 
 Towards the end of August, Reuben asked Rose to marry him.
 
@@ -9123,7 +9096,7 @@ an answer. He became suddenly alarmed lest she thought him too old, and
 pressing her for her reasons, found that the real matter was that she
 did not want to sacrifice her freedom.
 
-"Wot do you mean, sweetheart? Döan't you love me?"
+"Wot do you mean, sweetheart? Döan't you love me?"
 
 "Of course I love you--but it doesn't follow I want to belong to you.
 Can't we go on as we are?"
@@ -9134,7 +9107,7 @@ road that never leads nowhere."
 "Well, that's very nice--I don't always want to go somewhere every time
 I take a walk, I much prefer just wandering."
 
-"I döan't."
+"I döan't."
 
 "Because you're so practical and business-like, and I'm afraid you'd try
 and make me practical and business-like too. That's why I said I wanted
@@ -9205,7 +9178,7 @@ in his mind--somehow life seemed very aimless and gloomy; he despised
 himself because he craved for her arms, for her light thoughtless
 sympathy.
 
-"Why döan't you speak to me, Rose?"
+"Why döan't you speak to me, Rose?"
 
 "I was thinking."
 
@@ -9218,7 +9191,7 @@ in his arms, swinging her off her feet, burying his face in her wraps to
 kiss her neck. She kicked and fought him like a wild cat, and at last he
 dropped her.
 
-"Why wöan't you let me kiss you?"
+"Why wöan't you let me kiss you?"
 
 "Because I won't."
 
@@ -9261,7 +9234,7 @@ Then suddenly her expression changed. Her eyes half closed, her lips
 parted, and she held out her arms to him with a laugh like a sob.
 
 
-§ 5.
+§ 5.
 
 Reuben and Rose were married in the January of '70. It was the earliest
 date compatible with the stocking of her wardrobe, a business which
@@ -9281,7 +9254,7 @@ first bustle that had ever been seen in Peasmarsh, or even in Rye. In
 itself it was devastating enough, but it soon acquired a prophetic and
 metaphorical significance which made it even more impressive. Spectators
 saw in it the forecast of Odiam's downfall--"He can't stand that," said
-Brazier, the new man at Totease, "she's a Jezebubble."--"Only it äun't
+Brazier, the new man at Totease, "she's a Jezebubble."--"Only it äun't
 her head as she's tired this time," said Ticehurst.--"She shud have worn
 it in front of her, and then we shud have bin interested," said Cooper
 of Kitchenhour.
@@ -9385,7 +9358,7 @@ horribly cold.
 servant up to light one."
 
 "Oh, no. I'll light it; Mary's busy clearing the table. But I reckon as
-fäather wöan't be pleased."
+fäather wöan't be pleased."
 
 "I'll make him pleased. You leave father to me for the future."
 
@@ -9449,7 +9422,7 @@ possession became too much for Caro--she dropped the brush and the
 scented hair, and burst into passionate tears.
 
 
-§ 6.
+§ 6.
 
 Reuben at once laid out his wife's money to the best advantage. He
 bought twenty cows, good milkers, and started a dairy business in Rye. A
@@ -9529,7 +9502,7 @@ was like a man stirring in a happy dream, realising in the midst of it
 that he dreams, and must some day awake.
 
 
-§ 7.
+§ 7.
 
 The year '71 was on the whole a bad one. The summer was parched, the
 autumn sodden, and the winter frozen. Reuben's oats after some excellent
@@ -9599,7 +9572,7 @@ man. The battle was not to be won except over the heaped bodies of the
 slain, and on the summit of the heap would lie his own.
 
 
-§ 8.
+§ 8.
 
 The last piece of land had been exceptionally tough even for Boarzell.
 It was a high strip, running right across the Moor from the edge of the
@@ -9673,7 +9646,7 @@ father.
 
 "I'm sorry fur her."
 
-"But she döan't look as if she wanted it, surelye. I never see anything
+"But she döan't look as if she wanted it, surelye. I never see anything
 so smart and well-set-up as she wur in church last Sunday."
 
 "Still, I'm sorry fur her--I'm sorry fur any woman as he takes up with.
@@ -9714,7 +9687,7 @@ chanties and stories of strange ships.
 Next spring the news came to Odiam that Benjamin had run away to sea.
 
 
-§ 9.
+§ 9.
 
 It was Rose who had to tell Reuben.
 
@@ -9787,12 +9760,12 @@ comforted him a little. He lifted his head quickly at her words.
 Her bold sweet eyes were looking into his and her mouth was curved like
 a heart.
 
-"Rose, Rose--my dear, my liddle dear--you döan't mean----"
+"Rose, Rose--my dear, my liddle dear--you döan't mean----"
 
 "Of course I mean. You needn't look so surprised. Such a thing has been
 known to happen."
 
-"Döan't go laughing at me, but tell me--when?"
+"Döan't go laughing at me, but tell me--when?"
 
 "In October."
 
@@ -9810,7 +9783,7 @@ you get in such a taking? You've had children before, and they've all
 been failures--I expect this one will only be like the rest."
 
 
-§ 10.
+§ 10.
 
 Rose's child was born towards the end of October. Once more Reuben had a
 son, and as he looked down on the little red hairless thing all his
@@ -9898,7 +9871,7 @@ details about her confinement. Both, not to say all three, were startled
 by Reuben's sudden entrance, crimson and hatless, his collar flying, the
 dust all over him.
 
-"Here! Wot d'you think?" he shouted; "if that old man äun't left all his
+"Here! Wot d'you think?" he shouted; "if that old man äun't left all his
 money to a bastard."
 
 "Don't be so excited, Ben," said Rose; "you've no business to come
@@ -9963,7 +9936,7 @@ wretched husband was driven from the room, feeling that the world held
 even worse things than wealthy and perfidious libertines.
 
 
-§ 11.
+§ 11.
 
 Of course there was a reconciliation. Such things had begun to loom
 rather large in Reuben's married life. He had never had reconciliations
@@ -10011,7 +9984,7 @@ plunge and could not recoup himself properly without ready money. He
 must have drawn up his will in the spirit of malice--Reuben could
 imagine him grinning away in his grave. "Well, Ben Backfield, I've
 justabout sold you nicely, haven't I?--next to no capital, tedious heavy
-expenses, and a wife who döan't know the difference between a shilling
+expenses, and a wife who döan't know the difference between a shilling
 and a soverun. You thought you'd done yourself unaccountable well, old
 feller, I reckon. Now you've found out your mistake. And you can't git
 even wud me where I am. He! He!"
@@ -10046,7 +10019,7 @@ wanted them most, but on these occasions she used the drover Handshut, a
 comely, well-set-up young fellow, of independent manners. Reuben more
 than once had to drive him out of the kitchen.
 
-"I wöan't have my lads fooling it in the house," he said to his wife,
+"I wöan't have my lads fooling it in the house," he said to his wife,
 when he found her winding a skein of wool off Handshut's huge brown
 paws--"they've work enough to do outside wudout spannelling after you
 women."
@@ -10058,7 +10031,7 @@ Then there was an angry scene, stormings and tears, regrets, taunts, and
 abuse--and another reconciliation.
 
 
-§ 12.
+§ 12.
 
 In time, as these battles became more usual, the family were forced to
 take sides. Peter supported Reuben, Caro supported Rose. There had been
@@ -10189,7 +10162,7 @@ But Rose was in a devilish mood.
 "Look here," she said suddenly, "I'm going to prove the truth of what I
 told you just now. I'm going to make that boy kiss me."
 
-"Indeed you äun't."
+"Indeed you äun't."
 
 "Yes I am. I'll go down and talk to him at the bend, and you can creep
 along and watch us through the hedge; and I'll shut my eyes and maybe
@@ -10207,12 +10180,12 @@ longer."
 "Nothing--the kiss'll be enough for me. I've been wanting to know what
 he was like to kiss for many a long day."
 
-"Well, I'm justabout ashamed of you, and I wöan't have anything to do
+"Well, I'm justabout ashamed of you, and I wöan't have anything to do
 with it."
 
 "You can keep out then."
 
-"Wot if I tell fäather?"
+"Wot if I tell fäather?"
 
 "You wouldn't tell him--you wouldn't be such a sneak. After all, what's
 a man for, if it isn't to have a bit of fun with? I don't mean anything
@@ -10223,7 +10196,7 @@ serious--it's just a joke."
 "Just a joke too. You're so glum, Caro--you take everything so
 seriously. There's nothing really serious in a kiss."
 
-"Oh, äun't there!"
+"Oh, äun't there!"
 
 "No--it's just something one enjoys, same as cakes and bull's-eyes. I've
 kissed dozens of people in my time and meant nothing by it, nor they
@@ -10235,7 +10208,7 @@ For some obscure reason Caro did not like to see herself credited with
 the harshness of inexperience. She did her best to assume an air of
 worldly toleration.
 
-"Well, of course if it's only fun.... But fäather wudn't think it that."
+"Well, of course if it's only fun.... But fäather wudn't think it that."
 
 "No, and I shouldn't like him to. You _are_ funny, Caro. Don't watch me
 if you're shocked--you can know nothing about it, and then you won't be
@@ -10293,7 +10266,7 @@ together in an embrace which was not for fun at all, and kiss with
 kisses that were closer to tears than laughter.
 
 
-§ 13.
+§ 13.
 
 There was a convention of silence between Caro and Rose. From that day
 forward neither made any allusion to the escapade which had ended so
@@ -10374,7 +10347,7 @@ Handshut so outrageously in front of Reuben, that afterwards they had
 one of the biggest quarrels of their lives.
 
 
-§ 14.
+§ 14.
 
 'Seventy-four was another bad year for Odiam, and it was more hopeless
 than its predecessors, for Reuben had now no expectations to sustain
@@ -10474,7 +10447,7 @@ all, is it not better to embrace the god and die than to go through the
 unhappy days in darkness?
 
 
-§ 15.
+§ 15.
 
 One evening when Reuben was out inspecting a sick cow, Rose lay on the
 sofa languidly shelling peas. Once more it was June, and a rusty heat
@@ -10555,30 +10528,30 @@ want me a liddle bit now."
 He shrugged his shoulders--there must have been some foreign streak in
 his yokel's blood.
 
-"I döan't think it--I know. A year agone you dudn't want me, so I kipt
-back, I wurn't a-going to mäake you suffer. You wur frightened of that
+"I döan't think it--I know. A year agone you dudn't want me, so I kipt
+back, I wurn't a-going to mäake you suffer. You wur frightened of that
 kiss...."
 
 He had spoken it--her terror. "Don't!" she cried.
 
-"You wur frightened, so I saw you wurn't ready, and I tried to mäake you
+"You wur frightened, so I saw you wurn't ready, and I tried to mäake you
 feel as naun had happened."
 
 "Yes, I thought you were a gentleman," she said with a sudden rap of
 anger.
 
-"I äun't that. I'm just a poor labouring man, wot loves you, and wot you
+"I äun't that. I'm just a poor labouring man, wot loves you, and wot you
 love."
 
 She tried to speak, but the words burnt up in her mouth.
 
-"And a labouring man you love's worth more than a mäaster you döan't
+"And a labouring man you love's worth more than a mäaster you döan't
 love, I reckon."
 
 She shrank back on the sofa, folding her arms over her breast and
 gripping her shoulders.
 
-"You needn't look so frightened. I'm only saying it. It wöan't mäake no
+"You needn't look so frightened. I'm only saying it. It wöan't mäake no
 difference--unless you want it to."
 
 "How dare you speak to me like this?"
@@ -10594,7 +10567,7 @@ The sky had faded behind him and a crimson moon looked over his
 shoulder.
 
 "Plain enough," he repeated, "but you needn't be scared. I'll do naun
-you döan't want; I'll come no nearer you than I am now--unless you call
+you döan't want; I'll come no nearer you than I am now--unless you call
 me."
 
 She burst into tears.
@@ -10603,7 +10576,7 @@ He did not move. His head and shoulders were now nothing but a dark
 block against the purple and blue of the sky. The moon hung just above
 him like a copper dish.
 
-"Döan't cry," he said slowly--"I'm only looking in at the window."
+"Döan't cry," he said slowly--"I'm only looking in at the window."
 
 She struggled to her feet, sobs shaking and tearing her, and stumbled
 through the darkness to the door. Still sobbing she dragged herself
@@ -10614,7 +10587,7 @@ putting her, still weeping, to bed. While outside in the barn Reuben
 watched in agony beside a sick cow.
 
 
-§ 16.
+§ 16.
 
 When late the next morning a woman ran out of the house into the
 cow-stable, and told Reuben that his wife had given him a fine boy, he
@@ -10625,18 +10598,18 @@ lay there, slobbering her straw. His face was grim and furrowed, lines
 scored it from nose to mouth and across the forehead; his hair was damp
 and rough on his temples, his eyes were dull with sleeplessness.
 
-"Wöan't yer have summat t'eat, mäaster?" asked Beatup, looking in.
+"Wöan't yer have summat t'eat, mäaster?" asked Beatup, looking in.
 
 All Reuben said was:
 
 "Has the Inspector come?"
 
-"No, mäaster--I'll bring him räound soon as he does. Wöan't you have a
+"No, mäaster--I'll bring him räound soon as he does. Wöan't you have a
 bite o' cheese if I fetch it?"
 
 Reuben shook his head.
 
-"Mäaster----" continued the man after a pause.
+"Mäaster----" continued the man after a pause.
 
 "Well?"
 
@@ -10729,7 +10702,7 @@ pasture to the stream fallow.
 Public opinion was against Backfield, and blamed him surlily for the
 local inconvenience.
 
-"Döan't tell me," said Coalbran in the bar, "as it wurn't his fault.
+"Döan't tell me," said Coalbran in the bar, "as it wurn't his fault.
 Foot-and-mouth can't just drop from heaven. He must have bought some
 furriners, and they've carried it wud 'em, surelye."
 
@@ -10739,7 +10712,7 @@ furriners, and they've carried it wud 'em, surelye."
 man hereabouts wot's really made a serious business of farming, and it's
 a shame he should get busted."
 
-"He äun't busted yet," said Coalbran.
+"He äun't busted yet," said Coalbran.
 
 "But you mark my words, he will be," said Ticehurst; "anyways I shud lik
 him to be, fur he's a high-stomached man, and only deserves to be put
@@ -10757,7 +10730,7 @@ he'd see me and my lousy farm burnt first."
 
 "He's a tedious contradictious old feller--he desarves all he's got.
 Let's git up a subscription fur him--that ud cut him to the heart, and
-he wudn't täake it, so it ud cost us naun, nuther."
+he wudn't täake it, so it ud cost us naun, nuther."
 
 The rest of the bar seemed to think, however, that Reuben might take the
 money out of spite, so Coalbran's charitable suggestion collapsed for
@@ -10781,7 +10754,7 @@ harvest wind. Boarzell was nothing but a huge funeral pyre, a smoking
 hell.... "And the smoke of her went up for ever and ever."
 
 
-§ 17.
+§ 17.
 
 An atmosphere of gloom lay over Odiam; Reuben brought it with him
 wherever he went, and fogged the house with it as well as the barns.
@@ -10804,7 +10777,7 @@ husband. Though he could see she was sorry for him, he felt--vaguely,
 uncertainly, yet tormentingly--that she was not all his, as she had been
 in brighter months. Sometimes he did not much care--sometimes a dreadful
 passion would consume him, and once he caught her to his breast and
-bruised her in his arms, crying--"I wöan't lose you--I wöan't lose you
+bruised her in his arms, crying--"I wöan't lose you--I wöan't lose you
 too."
 
 Rose could not read his mood; one day she would feel her husband had
@@ -10878,7 +10851,7 @@ a little of what it meant to him.
 He drew back from her a little. Why should she lie to him about her
 tears?
 
-"Oh, well, if you döan't choose to tell me ... But I've eyes in my
+"Oh, well, if you döan't choose to tell me ... But I've eyes in my
 head."
 
 She seemed anxious to propitiate him.
@@ -10893,7 +10866,7 @@ He nodded.
 extraordinary about a mortgage--uncle had one for years on a bit of his
 farm at Rowfant. Besides, think of all you've got left."
 
-He laughed bitterly. "I äun't got much left."
+He laughed bitterly. "I äun't got much left."
 
 Then suddenly he turned towards her as she sat there by him, her head
 bowed over her work--her delicate, rather impertinent nose outlined
@@ -10917,7 +10890,7 @@ your--crying."
 Then he went out, and gave Handshut a week's notice.
 
 
-§ 18.
+§ 18.
 
 Rose was intensely relieved. She felt that at last and for ever the
 tormenting mystery would have gone from her life. Once Handshut was
@@ -10983,8 +10956,8 @@ She flushed at his audacity.
 
 "No!--how can I?"
 
-"You can quite easy, surelye. Mäaster's going to Cranbrook Fair, and
-wöan't be home till läate. It's the last night, remember."
+"You can quite easy, surelye. Mäaster's going to Cranbrook Fair, and
+wöan't be home till läate. It's the last night, remember."
 
 She made a gallant effort to be the old Rose.
 
@@ -10995,21 +10968,21 @@ Pretending 'ull give you naun sweet to remember when I'm gone."
 
 "What tolls are they going to burn?"
 
-"The gëates up at Leasan and Mockbeggar, and then over the marsh to
-Thornsdale. It 'ud be a shame fur you to miss it, and mäaster can't
-täake you, since he's going to Cranbrook."
+"The gëates up at Leasan and Mockbeggar, and then over the marsh to
+Thornsdale. It 'ud be a shame fur you to miss it, and mäaster can't
+täake you, since he's going to Cranbrook."
 
 "It would never do if people saw us."
 
 "Why? Since your husband can't go, wot's more likely than he shud send
-his man to täake you?"
+his man to täake you?"
 
 Rose shuddered. "I'm not coming."
 
 Handshut turned on his heel.
 
 
-§ 19.
+§ 19.
 
 Already the turnpike gates had disappeared from the greater part of
 Sussex, but they still lingered in the Rye district, for various
@@ -11090,8 +11063,8 @@ because of you."
 
 "He did not, miss--you're impudent!"
 
-"Well, why shud fäather git shut of the best drover he ever had on his
-farm, if it äun't----"
+"Well, why shud fäather git shut of the best drover he ever had on his
+farm, if it äun't----"
 
 "Be quiet! I won't hear such stuff. I'm not going to be a prisoner, and
 miss my fun just because you and Ben are jealous fools."
@@ -11113,14 +11086,14 @@ trim and smart five years ago.
 
 "I've changed my mind."
 
-"Then you äun't coming."
+"Then you äun't coming."
 
 "Yes, I am."
 
 "Then you haven't changed it."
 
 
-§ 20.
+§ 20.
 
 The roads outside Rye were dark with people. A procession was forming up
 at Rye Foreign, and another at the foot of Cadborough Hill. Outside the
@@ -11217,7 +11190,7 @@ or two women fainted. Rose felt as if she would faint in the heat and
 reek of it all. She leaned heavily against Handshut and closed her eyes
 ... then she realised that his arm was round her. He held her against
 him, supporting her, while either she heard or thought she heard him
-say--"Döan't be scared, liddle Rose--I'm wud you. I wöan't let you
+say--"Döan't be scared, liddle Rose--I'm wud you. I wöan't let you
 fall."
 
 She opened her eyes. The people were moving. The Mockbeggar gate had
@@ -11333,7 +11306,7 @@ For a moment she yielded to the kiss, then suddenly tore herself away.
 
 "Let me go--I can't."
 
-"Rose, why shud you pretend? You döan't love the mäaster, and you do
+"Rose, why shud you pretend? You döan't love the mäaster, and you do
 love me. Why shudn't we be happy together?"
 
 "We--I can't."
@@ -11363,7 +11336,7 @@ She began to cry.
 "No, no--don't be so cruel! Let me go!--I'm his wife."
 
 
-§ 21.
+§ 21.
 
 The walk home was dreary, for Rose and Handshut misunderstood each
 other, and yet loved each other too. She was silent, almost shamefaced,
@@ -11473,12 +11446,12 @@ a----"
 She fell against the wall, and her hair, disordered by embraces,
 suddenly streamed over her shoulders. The sight of it made Reuben wild.
 
-"Git off--before I täake my gun and shoot you."
+"Git off--before I täake my gun and shoot you."
 
 "Oh, Ben!..."
 
-"Höald your false tongue. You're no wife o' mine from this day forrard.
-I wöan't be cuckolded in my own house."
+"Höald your false tongue. You're no wife o' mine from this day forrard.
+I wöan't be cuckolded in my own house."
 
 His face was swollen, his eyes rolled--he looked almost as if he had
 been drinking.
@@ -11511,7 +11484,7 @@ from the distance came for the last time:
             God save the Queen!"
 
 
-§ 22.
+§ 22.
 
 A glassy yellow broke into the sky like a curse. It shone on Reuben's
 eyes, and he opened them. They were pink and puffed round the rims, and
@@ -11632,20 +11605,20 @@ Caro shrank from the jibe as if from a blow, and Reuben laughed
 brutally. He had made one woman suffer anyway.
 
 
-§ 23.
+§ 23.
 
 Of course the neighbourhood gloated; and the rustic convention was set
 aside in Rose's favour, and all the shame of her elopement heaped on
 Reuben.
 
-"No wäonder as she cudn't stick to him--hard, queer chap as he be."
+"No wäonder as she cudn't stick to him--hard, queer chap as he be."
 
 "And thirty year older nor she, besides."
 
-"Young Handshut wur a präaper lad, and valiant. I äun't surprised as
+"Young Handshut wur a präaper lad, and valiant. I äun't surprised as
 she'd rather have un wudout a penny than old Ben wud all his gold."
 
-"And he äun't got much o' that now, nuther. They say as he'll be bust by
+"And he äun't got much o' that now, nuther. They say as he'll be bust by
 next fall."
 
 Heads were shaken in triumphant commiseration, and the stones which
@@ -11685,7 +11658,7 @@ mysterious force outside themselves with which they had both already
 struggled in vain.
 
 
-§ 24.
+§ 24.
 
 Reuben scarcely knew what brought him to Cheat Land. It was about a week
 after the blow fell that he found himself treading the once familiar
@@ -11739,14 +11712,14 @@ a sneer.
 
 "If you speak like that I'll say 'poor Reuben.'"
 
-"Well, say it--you wöan't be far wrong. Wot sort o' chap am I to have
+"Well, say it--you wöan't be far wrong. Wot sort o' chap am I to have
 pride? My farm's ruined, my wife's run away, my children have left
 me--wot right have I to be proud?"
 
 "Because, though all those things have happened, you're holding your
 head up still."
 
-"But I äun't--yesterday I wur fair crying and sobbing in front of all
+"But I äun't--yesterday I wur fair crying and sobbing in front of all
 the children. In the kitchen, it wur--after supper--I put down my head
 on the table, and----"
 
@@ -11765,7 +11738,7 @@ Alice nodded.
 
 Alice nodded again.
 
-"You döan't mind me talking to you of her?"
+"You döan't mind me talking to you of her?"
 
 "No, of course not."
 
@@ -11814,7 +11787,7 @@ He raised her hand slowly to his lips.
 
 "But now I--well, it's too late anyhow. I'm a married man, no matter
 that my wife's in Canada. Of course, I could git a divorce--but I
-wöan't."
+wöan't."
 
 "No--it would cost money."
 
@@ -11842,7 +11815,7 @@ She laughed again. He stooped forward and kissed her forehead, and the
 laugh died on her lips.
 
 
-§ 25.
+§ 25.
 
 The rest of that day Reuben was a little happier. He felt comforted and
 stimulated, life was not so leaden. In the evening he worked a little in
@@ -11928,8 +11901,8 @@ wife--he would be able to take no risks and make no ventures, but he
 would be comfortable.
 
 His old father's words came back to him--"I've no ambitions, so I'm a
-happy man. I döan't want nothing I haven't got, so I haven't got nothing
-I döan't want." Perhaps his father had been right. After all, what had
+happy man. I döan't want nothing I haven't got, so I haven't got nothing
+I döan't want." Perhaps his father had been right. After all, what had
 he, Reuben, got by being ambitious? Comfort, peace, home-life, wife,
 children, were all so many bitter words to him, and his great plans
 themselves had crumbled into failure--he had lost everything to gain
@@ -12016,7 +11989,7 @@ BOOK VI
 STRUGGLING UP
 
 
-§ 1.
+§ 1.
 
 That night was a purging. From thenceforward Reuben was to press on
 straight to his goal, with no more slackenings or diversions.
@@ -12094,7 +12067,7 @@ his ambition, in a moment of weakness, by softer dreams which he now
 looked upon as so much dust.
 
 
-§ 2.
+§ 2.
 
 In the course of the following year Reuben had news of all his absent
 sons, except Benjamin, who was never heard of again.
@@ -12144,7 +12117,7 @@ his bad times, and now he's doing valiant."
 
 "And who has he got to thank fur it, I'd lik to know? Who taught him how
 to run a farm, and work, and never spare himself and pull things
-through? There he wur, wud no sperrit in him, grudging every ströake he
+through? There he wur, wud no sperrit in him, grudging every ströake he
 did fur Odiam. If I hadn't kept him to it, where 'ud he be now?"
 
 News of Richard came a few months later. He was heard of as a barrister
@@ -12173,7 +12146,7 @@ Reuben's unlucky marriage and of the foot-and-mouth catastrophe, he had
 evidently lost count of absconding sons, for he seemed to think Pete
 had run away too, which Reuben considered an unjustifiable aspersion on
 his domestic order. However, the general tone of his letter was
-conciliatory, and his remarks on the cattle-plague "most präaper."
+conciliatory, and his remarks on the cattle-plague "most präaper."
 
 As for himself, his life had been full of hard work and the happiness of
 endeavour crowned at last by success. Anne Bardon he referred to as an
@@ -12194,7 +12167,7 @@ his debts to Anne Bardon.
 they'd stayed at home."
 
 
-§ 3.
+§ 3.
 
 Soon afterwards a letter came from Albert, asking for money, but again
 Reuben forbade any notice to be taken of it. For one thing he could not
@@ -12433,7 +12406,7 @@ the path, then at her request turned back towards Odiam.
 They parted uneasily, without any arrangement to meet again.
 
 
-§ 4.
+§ 4.
 
 For the first few hours of her sleepless night, Caro's happiness
 outweighed her regret. Her mind sucked her little experience like a
@@ -12497,7 +12470,7 @@ rose hullish and deserted--far away at Ellenwhorne a dog was barking,
 but all else was still.
 
 
-§ 5.
+§ 5.
 
 There was no doubt that Joe Dansay had got drunk at Willie Tailleur's
 wedding. The fact was cruelly emphasised by the headache with which he
@@ -12578,7 +12551,7 @@ farmhouse gate. He would go back to her, and she would not be so timid
 this time--they never were.
 
 
-§ 6.
+§ 6.
 
 "Oh, I thought you wur never coming back."
 
@@ -12676,12 +12649,12 @@ Boarzell Fair.
 
 "Of course, if you can manage it without us being spotted."
 
-"I reckon I cud, for fäather äun't going this year, he's got an auction
+"I reckon I cud, for fäather äun't going this year, he's got an auction
 at Appledore."
 
 "Then you come along; I'll take you, and we'll have some fun."
 
-"But I döan't want you to waste your money."
+"But I döan't want you to waste your money."
 
 "It won't be wasting it. Why, Lord love ye, I'd rather spend it on you
 than anything in the world."
@@ -12689,7 +12662,7 @@ than anything in the world."
 Her look of surprise and adoration was his reward.
 
 
-§ 7.
+§ 7.
 
 Boarzell Fair was in many ways a mark of the passage of the years and a
 commentary on history. Not only did the atmosphere and persons of it
@@ -12758,7 +12731,7 @@ to any tune.
 
 In time Caro grew tired, and they wandered off to the shooting-gallery
 and the merry-go-round. They patronised the cocoanut shie, and won a
-gilt saucer at the hoop-là stall. In the gipsy's tent Caro was told that
+gilt saucer at the hoop-là stall. In the gipsy's tent Caro was told that
 she would ride in a carriage with a lord, and have six fine children,
 all boys, while Dansay was promised such wealth that he would be able to
 throw gold to crossing-sweepers. They sat in the Panorama till it stuck
@@ -12780,7 +12753,7 @@ as in the days when Reuben and Naomi had danced together. Caro was no
 longer shocked at the "goings-on," which had used to scandalise her in
 earlier years when she knew them scarcely more than by hearsay. Her very
 innocence had made her easier to corrupt, and she now joined in the
-revel with a delight scarcely less abandoned, if more naïve, than that
+revel with a delight scarcely less abandoned, if more naïve, than that
 of the cottage wantons who bumped round her. It was all so new, and yet
 so natural, this kicking and capering to a jigging tune. Who would have
 imagined that the lonely bitter Caro, enviously watching the fun in
@@ -12806,14 +12779,14 @@ Dansay bit his lip--he was afraid so.
 
 Caro began to cry.
 
-"My fäather will kill me, surelye."
+"My fäather will kill me, surelye."
 
 She knew for certain that Pete would tell him, and then almost quite as
 certainly she would lose the adventure which had become life itself to
 her. She would be driven back into the old prison, the old loneliness,
 the old despair. She clung to Dansay, weeping and frantic:
 
-"Oh, Joe--döan't let them find me. I can't lose you--I wöan't lose
+"Oh, Joe--döan't let them find me. I can't lose you--I wöan't lose
 you--I love you so."
 
 He was leading her away from the people, to the back of the stalls. He
@@ -12845,13 +12818,13 @@ roughness, and for one moment at least had every intention of sticking
 to her for ever.
 
 
-§ 8.
+§ 8.
 
 It was not from Pete that Reuben first heard of his daughter's
 goings-on. Caro's benevolent trust in humanity had been misplaced, and
 at the Seven Bells where he called for a refresher on arriving at Rye
 station, various stragglers from Boarzell eagerly betrayed her, "just to
-see how he wud täake it."
+see how he wud täake it."
 
 Reuben received the news with the indifference due to outsiders. But he
 was not so calm when Pete told his tale at Odiam.
@@ -12866,7 +12839,7 @@ time the two males had sat up till about three or four the next morning,
 they came to the conclusion that Caro must have seen Pete watching her
 and run away.
 
-"She'll never come back," said Pete that evening--"you täake my word fur
+"She'll never come back," said Pete that evening--"you täake my word fur
 it."
 
 "That's another of my daughters gone fur a whore."
@@ -12916,7 +12889,7 @@ love, hate, follow, cheat, and betray whom they chose, as long as they
 left him the red earth and the labour of his hands.
 
 
-§ 9.
+§ 9.
 
 Early the next year Reuben heard that Caro and her lover had left
 Camber, and gone no one knew where, but by that time the elapse of
@@ -13014,14 +12987,14 @@ who had money of her own, but Anne's reply had been frigid. She wrote:--
 "I do not see my way to helping Flightshot while I have so many other
 calls upon me. Richard is still unsettled, and unable entirely to
 support himself. I should be a poor friend indeed if after having
-induced my protégé to abandon his home and rely on me, I should forsake
+induced my protégé to abandon his home and rely on me, I should forsake
 him before he was properly established. Be a man, Ralph, and refuse to
 sell any more land to that greedy, selfish, unscrupulous old Backfield."
 
 But Ralph only sighed--it was all very well for Anne to talk!
 
 
-§ 10.
+§ 10.
 
 Except for a steady maintenance of prosperity by dint of hard work, the
 year was uneventful. Autumn passed, and nothing broke the strenuous
@@ -13045,7 +13018,7 @@ and this time Pete crossed the room yawning, and opened the door.
 For a moment he stood in front of it, while the icy wind swept into the
 room. Then he dashed back to Reuben's chair.
 
-"Fäather--it's Albert!"
+"Fäather--it's Albert!"
 
 Reuben sprang to his feet. He was still only half awake, and he rubbed
 his eyes as he stared at the figure framed in the doorway. Then suddenly
@@ -13073,7 +13046,7 @@ fur?"
 
 "I reckon he's half starved--and he looks ill too."
 
-"Well, he's swooneded away, anyhow. Can't you do something to mäake him
+"Well, he's swooneded away, anyhow. Can't you do something to mäake him
 sensible?"
 
 "Poor feller," said Pete, and scratched his head.
@@ -13081,7 +13054,7 @@ sensible?"
 Reuben was irritated by this display of sentiment.
 
 "You needn't go pitying him, nuther--he's a lousy Radical traitor. You
-do something to mäake him sensible and out he goes."
+do something to mäake him sensible and out he goes."
 
 At this juncture Albert opened his eyes.
 
@@ -13095,12 +13068,12 @@ Albert sat up--then asked for some water.
 Pete fetched a jug, which he held awkwardly to Albert's lips. Then he
 helped him to a chair, and began to unlace his boots.
 
-"Stop that," shouted Reuben--"he äun't to stay here."
+"Stop that," shouted Reuben--"he äun't to stay here."
 
 "You'll let me stop the night," pleaded Albert. "I'll explain things
 when I'm better. I can't now."
 
-"You can go to the Cocks--I wöan't have you in my house."
+"You can go to the Cocks--I wöan't have you in my house."
 
 "But I haven't got a penny--cleaned myself out for my railway ticket.
 I've walked all the way from the station, and my lungs are bad."
@@ -13125,12 +13098,12 @@ bed, and to-morrow----"
 A fit of coughing interrupted him. He strained and shook from head to
 foot. He had no handkerchief, and spat blood on the floor.
 
-"Fäather!" cried Pete, "you can't turn him out lik this."
+"Fäather!" cried Pete, "you can't turn him out lik this."
 
 "He's shamming," said Reuben.
 
 "Quite so," said Albert, who seemed to have learned sarcasm in
-exile--"hæmorrhage is so deuced easy to sham."
+exile--"hæmorrhage is so deuced easy to sham."
 
 "He's come back to git money out of me," said Reuben, "but he shan't
 have a penny--I've none to spare."
@@ -13166,7 +13139,7 @@ he had reached the last stage of exhaustion.
 the old boy won't be able to turn me out, however much he wants to."
 
 
-§ 11.
+§ 11.
 
 Whether Reuben would have succeeded or not is uncertain, for he was
 never put to the proof. The next day Albert was feverish and delirious,
@@ -13184,7 +13157,7 @@ Albert would never have willingly crossed his path. Those were not the
 days of open windows and fresh-air cures, so there was no especial
 reason why he should ever leave the low-raftered stuffy room, where he
 would lie by the hour in a frowsty dream of sickness, broken only by
-fits of coughing and hæmorrhage.
+fits of coughing and hæmorrhage.
 
 His return had created a mild stir in the neighbourhood, and in Reuben's
 breast, despite circumstances and appearances, many thrills of
@@ -13267,7 +13240,7 @@ to find relief in his confidences. And on and on the stream flowed,
 swifter and muddier every day.
 
 
-§ 12.
+§ 12.
 
 At last matters reached a climax. It was late in March; Albert was much
 worse, and even the doctor looked solemn. "He won't last till the
@@ -13279,14 +13252,14 @@ bedclothes, the sweat trickling down his face.
 
 "Pete!" he cried chokingly--"I won't die!--I won't die!"
 
-"And you wöan't, nuther," said Pete, soothing him.
+"And you wöan't, nuther," said Pete, soothing him.
 
 "But I heard what the doctor said to you."
 
 Pete was at a loss. He could lie if the lie were not too constructive,
 but in a case like this he was done for.
 
-"Well, döan't you fret, nohow," he murmured tenderly.
+"Well, döan't you fret, nohow," he murmured tenderly.
 
 But it was no good telling Albert not to fret. He threw himself from
 side to side in the bed, moaned, and almost raved. For months now he had
@@ -13302,7 +13275,7 @@ Albert had been known openly to scoff at hell, whereas Pete had never
 thought much about it. Now it confronted them both under a new
 aspect--the scoffer trembled and the thoughtless was preoccupied.
 
-"Döan't fret," reiterated poor Pete, desperate under the fresh
+"Döan't fret," reiterated poor Pete, desperate under the fresh
 complication of theology, "I reckon you're not bad enough to go to hell,
 surelye."
 
@@ -13418,14 +13391,14 @@ improving the hour with a woman now blotted against the hedge. He lay
 flat in the road, unconscious, while his adversary stood over him, his
 fist still clenched and all the skin off his knuckles.
 
-"Lordy! but that wur justabout präaper!" cried Pete, bustling up, and
+"Lordy! but that wur justabout präaper!" cried Pete, bustling up, and
 sorry that the tramp showed no signs of getting on to his feet.
 
 "It's settled him anyhow," said the man in black.
 
 They both stooped and eyed him critically.
 
-"You've landed him in a good pläace," said Pete; "a little farther back
+"You've landed him in a good pläace," said Pete; "a little farther back
 and he'd have been gone."
 
 "Praise be to God that his life was spared."
@@ -13473,7 +13446,7 @@ Pete was following a train of thought.
 man!"
 
 "I mean can a minister do wot a Parson does?--tell a poor feller wot's
-dying that he wöan't go to hell."
+dying that he wöan't go to hell."
 
 "Not if he's washed in the blood of the Lamb."
 
@@ -13494,12 +13467,12 @@ sinner's soul with dead works, but wash it in the crimson fountain. You
 trust your sick man to me, young feller--I'll wash him in blood, I'll
 clothe him in righteousness, I'll feed him with salvation."
 
-"I'll justabout täake you to him, then. He asked fur a 'stablished
-parson, but I'd sooner far bring you, for, Lordy, if you äun't the
-präaperest bruiser I've ever set eyes on."
+"I'll justabout täake you to him, then. He asked fur a 'stablished
+parson, but I'd sooner far bring you, for, Lordy, if you äun't the
+präaperest bruiser I've ever set eyes on."
 
 
-§ 13.
+§ 13.
 
 That was how the Rev. Roger Ades started his ministrations at Odiam. At
 first Reuben was disgusted. He had never before had truck with
@@ -13525,7 +13498,7 @@ of Albert's bedroom and assaulted the ears of workers on Boarzell. In
 the evenings, when Ades was gone, Pete whistled them about the house.
 Reuben was ashamed; it made him blush to think that his stout
 churchmanship should have to put up with this. "I scarcely dare show my
-face in the pub, wud all this going on at höame," he remarked
+face in the pub, wud all this going on at höame," he remarked
 sorrowfully.
 
 Meanwhile, the farm was doing well; indeed, it was almost back at its
@@ -13542,14 +13515,14 @@ He wondered how long it would be before it could all be his. He would
 have to work like a fiend if he was to do it in his lifetime. There was
 the Grandturzel inclosure, too.... Then he would go and whip up his men,
 and make them work nearly as hard as he worked himself, so that in the
-evening they would complain at the Cocks of "wot a tedious hard mäaster
+evening they would complain at the Cocks of "wot a tedious hard mäaster
 Mus' Backfield wur, surelye!"
 
 One day Albert sent his father a message through Pete.
 
 "He wanted me to tell you wot an unaccountable difference he sees in
 Boarzell now he's come back. He'd never have known it, 'tis so changed.
-All the new bit towards Doozes is justabout präaper."
+All the new bit towards Doozes is justabout präaper."
 
 Reuben said nothing, in spite of the entreaty in Pete's honest eyes, but
 his heart warmed towards his son. Albert had shown at last proper
@@ -13596,7 +13569,7 @@ retreat:
          Salvation! Salvation full and free!"
 
 
-§ 14.
+§ 14.
 
 Early in May, Pete came out to Reuben on Boarzell and told him that
 Albert was dead. Reuben felt a little awkward and a little relieved.
@@ -13607,8 +13580,8 @@ Albert was dead. Reuben felt a little awkward and a little relieved.
 
 Reuben started.
 
-"It wur a präaper death," continued Pete; "his soul wur washed as white
-as wool. He wur the prodigal son come höame; he wur the Lord's lost
+"It wur a präaper death," continued Pete; "his soul wur washed as white
+as wool. He wur the prodigal son come höame; he wur the Lord's lost
 sixpence, I reckon."
 
 "And that son of a harlot from Little Bethel wurn't wud him, I trust?"
@@ -13637,10 +13610,10 @@ point, and alarmed Reuben with more religious phraseology.
 "It wur Ades wot gave him to the Lord, wot found him salvation in the
 Blood of the Lamb."
 
-"I döan't care two straws about that. Albert wur born and christened
+"I döan't care two straws about that. Albert wur born and christened
 Church, and he's not going to die chapel because a lousy Methody sings
-hymns over him when he's sick and döan't know better. If I find that
-feller on my pläace again, I'll break every bone in his body."
+hymns over him when he's sick and döan't know better. If I find that
+feller on my pläace again, I'll break every bone in his body."
 
 Pete angrily defended the minister, which caused Reuben fresh alarm; for
 in the old days when his father abused Ades he had tried to conciliate
@@ -13681,7 +13654,7 @@ by that of Pete, who stood beside the grave with his eyes shut, saying
 "A-aaa-men" at unliturgical intervals, as only Dissenters can say it.
 
 
-§ 15.
+§ 15.
 
 Pete spent that evening with Ades, and Reuben's fireside slumbers were
 unrestful because he missed Pete's accustomed snore from the other end
@@ -13693,11 +13666,11 @@ man to do the mixing.
 
 "Where's Pete?" asked Reuben.
 
-"I dunno--äun't seen un this mornun. Ah--thur he be!"
+"I dunno--äun't seen un this mornun. Ah--thur he be!"
 
 "Where?"
 
-"Cöaming up by the brook, surelye."
+"Cöaming up by the brook, surelye."
 
 Reuben stared in amazement. The approaching figure undoubtedly was Pete,
 but a Pete so changed by circumstances and demeanour as to be almost
@@ -13713,24 +13686,24 @@ and ten acres o' hops to be sprayed, and you go laying in bed lik a
 lady, and then come out all dressed as if you wur going to church.
 Where's your corduroys?"
 
-"In my box--you can clöathe the naked wud 'em--I'm never going to put
+"In my box--you can clöathe the naked wud 'em--I'm never going to put
 'em on no more."
 
 "I'm hemmed if I'll have you working on my farm in that foolery. You'll
-mäake us the laughing-stock of Peasmarsh. You've got Ebenezer on the
+mäake us the laughing-stock of Peasmarsh. You've got Ebenezer on the
 brain, you have, and you can justabout git it off again."
 
-"I'm never going to do another ströake of wark on your farm as long as I
+"I'm never going to do another ströake of wark on your farm as long as I
 live. Salvation's got me."
 
 Reuben dropped the insect-killer.
 
 "I'm the Lord's lost lamb," announced Pete.
 
-"The Lord's lost----!" cried his father angrily. "You täake off them
+"The Lord's lost----!" cried his father angrily. "You täake off them
 blacks, and git to work lik a human being."
 
-"I tell you I'm never going to work fur you agäun. I'm going forth to
+"I tell you I'm never going to work fur you agäun. I'm going forth to
 spread the Word. Salvation's got me."
 
 "You wait till _I_ git you, that's all," and Reuben ran at Pete.
@@ -13738,10 +13711,10 @@ spread the Word. Salvation's got me."
 "Kip off, or I'll slosh you one on the boko," cried the Lord's lost lamb
 swinging up a vigorous pair of fists. Reuben breathed a sigh of relief.
 
-"There--I knew as there wur reason in you, Pete. You wöan't go and leave
-your fäather lik the rest, all fur a hemmed Methody."
+"There--I knew as there wur reason in you, Pete. You wöan't go and leave
+your fäather lik the rest, all fur a hemmed Methody."
 
-"Hemmed Methody! That's how you spik of the man wot's säaved my soul. I
+"Hemmed Methody! That's how you spik of the man wot's säaved my soul. I
 tell you as there I wur lost in trespasses and sins, and now I'm washed
 white as wool--there wur my evil doings sticking to my soul lik maggots
 to a dead rat, and now my soul's washed in the Blood of the Lamb, and
@@ -13760,33 +13733,33 @@ Instead of settin' and reading godly books and singing wud the saints
 I've gone and ploughed furrers and carted manure; I've thought only of
 the things of the flesh, I've walked lik accursed Adam among the
 thistles. But now a Voice says, 'work no more!--go and spread the Word!'
-And if you're wise, fäather, you'll cöame too, and you, Beatup. You'll
-flee from the wrath to cöame, when He shall shäake the earth and the
+And if you're wise, fäather, you'll cöame too, and you, Beatup. You'll
+flee from the wrath to cöame, when He shall shäake the earth and the
 elimunts shall dissolve in fervient heat, and He ..."
 
 "Have adone do wud your preaching. I'm ashamed of you, led astray by
 lunies as if you wur no better nor poor Harry. You're a hemmed lousy
 traitor, you are, the worst of 'em all."
 
-"I'm only fleeing from the wrath to cöame--and if you're wise you'll
+"I'm only fleeing from the wrath to cöame--and if you're wise you'll
 foller me. This farm is the city of destruction, I tell you, it's a
 snare of the devil, it's Naboth's vineyard, it's the lake that burneth
-wud fire and brimstone. Cöame out of her, cöame out of her, my peoples!"
+wud fire and brimstone. Cöame out of her, cöame out of her, my peoples!"
 
 Reuben was paralysed. His jaw worked convulsively, and he looked at Pete
 as if he were a specially new and pestilential form of blight.
 
-"Save yourself, fäather," continued the evangelist, "and give up all the
+"Save yourself, fäather," continued the evangelist, "and give up all the
 vain desires of the flesh. Is this a time to buy olive-yards and
-vineyards? Beware lest there cöame upon you as it did to him wot
+vineyards? Beware lest there cöame upon you as it did to him wot
 purchaised a field, the reward of inquiety, and falling headlong he bust
 asunder in the midst and his bowels goshed out----"
 
 But Reuben had found his voice.
 
-"Git out of this!" he shouted. "I wöan't stand here and listen to you
+"Git out of this!" he shouted. "I wöan't stand here and listen to you
 miscalling the farm wot's bred you and fed you over thirty year. Git
-out, and never think you'll come back again. I'm shut of you. I döan't
+out, and never think you'll come back again. I'm shut of you. I döan't
 want no more of you--I'm out of the wood now, I've got all the work out
 of you I've needed, so you can go, and spread your hemmed Word, and be
 hemmed. I'm shut of you."
@@ -13813,7 +13786,7 @@ BOOK VII
 THE END IN SIGHT
 
 
-§ 1.
+§ 1.
 
 The next five years were comparatively uneventful. All that stood out of
 them was the steady progress of the farm. It fattened, it grew, it crept
@@ -13888,7 +13861,7 @@ children. Harry was popular with them, as he had been with baby Fanny
 long ago, because he made funny faces and emitted strange, unexpected
 sounds. He was unlike the accepted variety of grown-up people, who were
 seldom amusing or surprising, and one could take liberties with him,
-such as one could not take with fäather or Maude. Also, being blind, one
+such as one could not take with fäather or Maude. Also, being blind, one
 could play on him the most fascinating tricks.
 
 These tricks were never unkind, for David and William were the most
@@ -13905,11 +13878,11 @@ or help fetch the cows home. He seemed to see the farm peopled by little
 ghosts who had never dared trot about aimlessly, or had time to play,
 and had fed the fowls and fetched the cows not as a treat and an
 adventure, but as a dreary part of the day's grind ... he reflected that
-"the mäaster had learned summat by the others, surelye."
+"the mäaster had learned summat by the others, surelye."
 
 Of course, one reason why David and Billy were so free was because of
 the growing prosperity of the farm, which no longer made it necessary to
-save and scrape. But on the other hand, it was a fact that the mäaster
+save and scrape. But on the other hand, it was a fact that the mäaster
 had learned summat by the others. He was resolved that, come what might,
 he would keep these boys. They should not leave him like their brothers;
 and since harshness had failed to keep those at home, he would now try a
@@ -13922,7 +13895,7 @@ Such dreams made him look with hungry tenderness at the two little
 figures trotting hand in hand about the orchard and the barns.
 
 
-§ 2.
+§ 2.
 
 It was about that time that the great Lewin case came on at the Old
 Bailey. The papers were full of it, and Reuben could not suppress a glow
@@ -13939,10 +13912,10 @@ and being able to recognise the name of Backfield in print, sat chasing
 the magic word through dark labyrinths of type, counting the number of
 its appearances and registering them on the back of his corn accounts.
 
-"How's the Lewin cäase gitting on?" someone would ask at the Cocks, and
+"How's the Lewin cäase gitting on?" someone would ask at the Cocks, and
 Reuben would answer:
 
-"Valiant--my näum wur sixteen times in the päaper this mornun."
+"Valiant--my näum wur sixteen times in the päaper this mornun."
 
 He almost taught himself to read by this means, for it was the first
 time he had ever studied a printed page, and he had soon picked up
@@ -13972,10 +13945,10 @@ have been in such tedious heart about it."
 "I can't say as I'm pleased at his marrying Miss Bardon," Reuben would
 say. "She's ten year older than he if she's a day. 'Twas she who asked
 him, I reckon. He could have done better fur himself if he'd stayed at
-höame."
+höame."
 
 
-§ 3.
+§ 3.
 
 Reuben had bought thirty-five more acres of Boarzell in '81, and thirty
 in '84. The first piece was on the Flightshot side of the Moor, by Cheat
@@ -14012,10 +13985,10 @@ would do with it when it was his.
 More than once Realf and Tilly saw him in the distance, a tall, sinister
 figure, haunting their northern boundaries.
 
-"Fäather's after our land," said Tilly, and shuddered.
+"Fäather's after our land," said Tilly, and shuddered.
 
 
-§ 4.
+§ 4.
 
 The little boys grew big and went to school. This time it was not to the
 dame's school in the village, for that had collapsed before the new
@@ -14134,7 +14107,7 @@ would be complete.
 
 "I reckon I'm through wud my bad luck now--Odiam's doing valiant. I'm
 shut of all the lazy-bones, Grandturzel's beat, and I've naun to stand
-agäunst me."
+agäunst me."
 
 "What about Nature?" asked Richard, readjusting his pince-nez and
 thrusting forward his chin, whereby it was always known in court that he
@@ -14144,17 +14117,17 @@ meant to "draw out" the witness.
 
 "The last word on most subjects," said Richard.
 
-"Well, is it? I reckon it äun't the last word on your wife."
+"Well, is it? I reckon it äun't the last word on your wife."
 
 "I beg your pardon!"--Anne's chin came forward so like Richard's that
 one might gather he had borrowed the trick from her.
 
 "Well, 'carding to Nature, ma'am, and saving your presence, you're
 forty-five year if you're a day. I remember the very 'casion you wur
-born. Well, if I may be so bold, you döan't look past thirty. How's
+born. Well, if I may be so bold, you döan't look past thirty. How's
 that? Just because you know some dodges worth two of Nature's, you've a
 way of gitting even wud her. Now if a lady can bust Nature at her
-dressing-täable, I reckon I can bust her on my farm."
+dressing-täable, I reckon I can bust her on my farm."
 
 "This is most interesting," said Anne icily, raising her lorgnette and
 looking at Reuben as if he were a bad smell.
@@ -14162,17 +14135,17 @@ looking at Reuben as if he were a bad smell.
 "He means to be complimentary," said Richard.
 
 "Reckon I do!" cried Reuben genially, warmed by various liquors--"naun
-shall say I döan't know a fine woman when I see one. And I reckon as me
-and my darter-in-law are out after the säum thing--and that's the
+shall say I döan't know a fine woman when I see one. And I reckon as me
+and my darter-in-law are out after the säum thing--and that's the
 beating of Nature, wot you seem to set such a store by, Richard."
 
 "Well, she'll have you both in the end, anyhow."
 
-"She! no--she wöan't git me."
+"She! no--she wöan't git me."
 
 "She'll get you when you die."
 
-"Oh, I döan't count that--that's going to good earth."
+"Oh, I döan't count that--that's going to good earth."
 
 "Perhaps she'll get you before then."
 
@@ -14183,13 +14156,13 @@ going to--when I wur young and my own hot blood wur lik to betray me.
 But I settled her then, and I'll settle her to the end of time. Mark my
 words, Richard my boy, there's always some way of gitting even wud her.
 Wot's nature?--nature's a thing; and a man's a--why he's a man, and he
-can always go one better than a thing. Nature mäakes potato-blight, so
-man mäakes Bordeaux spray; nature mäakes calf-husk, so man mäakes
-linseed oil; nature mäakes lice, so man mäakes lice-killer. Man's the
-better of nature all along, and I döan't mind proving it."
+can always go one better than a thing. Nature mäakes potato-blight, so
+man mäakes Bordeaux spray; nature mäakes calf-husk, so man mäakes
+linseed oil; nature mäakes lice, so man mäakes lice-killer. Man's the
+better of nature all along, and I döan't mind proving it."
 
 Having thus delivered himself under the combined fire of the lorgnette
-and the pince-nez, Reuben poured himself out half a tumblerful of _crème
+and the pince-nez, Reuben poured himself out half a tumblerful of _crème
 de menthe_ and drank the healths of them both with their children,
 whereat Anne rose quickly from the table and sought refuge in the
 drawing-room.
@@ -14232,7 +14205,7 @@ name in all the papers."
 
 "We'll never do anything fur ourselves if we stay at Odiam."
 
-"No--but we'll have to stay. Fäather will make us."
+"No--but we'll have to stay. Fäather will make us."
 
 "He couldn't make Richard stay."
 
@@ -14245,16 +14218,16 @@ he'd never have done half so valiant for himself if he'd stayed."
 Reuben pulled himself together, and swinging round cuffed both speakers
 unaccustomedly.
 
-"Döan't let me hear another word of that hemmed nonsense. If you think
+"Döan't let me hear another word of that hemmed nonsense. If you think
 as Richard's bettered himself by running away from Odiam, you're
 unaccountable mistaken. Wot's a dirty lawyer compared wud a farmer as
 farms three hundred acres, and owns 'em into the bargain? All my boys
 have busted and ruined them selves by running away--Richard's the only
 one that's done anything wotsumdever ... and if he's done well, there's
-one as has done better, and that's his fäather wot stayed at home."
+one as has done better, and that's his fäather wot stayed at home."
 
 
-§ 5.
+§ 5.
 
 About three years later Sir Ralph Bardon died. He died of typhus caught
 on one of Reuben's insanitary cottages, where he had been nursing a sick
@@ -14335,7 +14308,7 @@ stalking among the booths, and glaring at them as if he wished them all
 at blazes.
 
 
-§ 6.
+§ 6.
 
 The boys were now sixteen and eighteen, fine, manly young fellows,
 working cheerfully on Odiam and rejoicing their father's heart. Reuben
@@ -14377,9 +14350,9 @@ of his experience in no measured terms:
 "If you fall in love wud a gal you can't say no to her, and she'll find
 it out lamentable soon. When either of you boys finds a nice strong,
 sensible gal, wud a bit o' money, and not self-willed, such as 'ull be a
-good darter-in-law' to me, I shan't have nothing to say agäunst it. But
-döan't you go running after petticoats and mäake fools of yourselves and
-disgrace Odiam, and call it being in love. Love mäakes you soft, and if
+good darter-in-law' to me, I shan't have nothing to say agäunst it. But
+döan't you go running after petticoats and mäake fools of yourselves and
+disgrace Odiam, and call it being in love. Love mäakes you soft, and if
 you're soft you might just as well be buried fur all the good you're
 likely to do yourself."
 
@@ -14418,7 +14391,7 @@ But David still answered:
 "I'm thinking."
 
 
-§ 7.
+§ 7.
 
 That autumn David and William went to Newhaven to see the Rye Football
 Club play the West Sussex United. They had more than once gone on such
@@ -14472,11 +14445,11 @@ reckon she's having just a breath of fresh air before she starts work."
 
 "Oh, to the more crowded streets, round about the pubs and that."
 
-"I wonder how much she mäakes at it."
+"I wonder how much she mäakes at it."
 
 "Not much, I reckon. She's a very low-class sort, and not at all young."
 
-"Täake care--she might hear you."
+"Täake care--she might hear you."
 
 "Oh, don't you worry," said the lady blandly; "I like listening to you,
 and I was only waiting till you'd stopped before I introduced myself."
@@ -14510,10 +14483,10 @@ evening off. When did he leave Odiam?--I should like some news of home."
 
 "He quitted years ago, when we were little chaps. Salvation got him."
 
-"I reckon that must have come hard on fäather--he always was
+"I reckon that must have come hard on fäather--he always was
 unaccountable set on Pete. Heard anything of Tilly lately?"
 
-"No, nothing particular. But fäather's going to buy the Grandturzel
+"No, nothing particular. But fäather's going to buy the Grandturzel
 inclosure."
 
 "And Rose?"
@@ -14589,7 +14562,7 @@ pleasant-like. It's all a change for the better. See?"
 
 "Then you don't wish as you wur back again?"
 
-"Back! Back with fäather! Not me! Now let's hear some more about
+"Back! Back with fäather! Not me! Now let's hear some more about
 him--does he ever speak to you of your mother?"
 
 For the rest of the meal they discussed the absent ones--Rose, Robert,
@@ -14605,7 +14578,7 @@ David and William looked at each other, and hesitated.
 
 "You've no call to be ashamed of me," said Caro rather irritably.
 
-"We--we äun't ashamed of you."
+"We--we äun't ashamed of you."
 
 "That's right--for you've no call to be. I was driven to this, couldn't
 help myself. Besides, I'm no worse than a lot of women wot you call
@@ -14617,7 +14590,7 @@ get, I've never once, not once, regretted the day I ran off from his old
 farm. Now mind--you tell him that."
 
 
-§ 8.
+§ 8.
 
 The boys told him. Reuben listened in silence save for one ejaculation
 of "the dirty bitch!"
@@ -14627,7 +14600,7 @@ David nudged William.
 "And she asked us particular to say as she'd never regretted the day she
 left Odiam, or wished herself back there, nuther."
 
-"She wur purty säafe to say that--for who'd have her back, I'd lik to
+"She wur purty säafe to say that--for who'd have her back, I'd lik to
 know? Larmentable creature she always wur, spanneling around lik a mangy
 cat. Always thin and always miserable--I'm glad to be shut of her. But
 she seemed cheery when you saw her?"
@@ -14650,7 +14623,7 @@ at all."
 "Bill, do you think that if we stay here, Odiam 'ull' do for us wot it
 did for Caro?"
 
-"I döan't think so. Fäather was much harder on Caro than he is on us."
+"I döan't think so. Fäather was much harder on Caro than he is on us."
 
 "He's not hard on us--but he's unaccountable interfering; it maddens me
 sometimes."
@@ -14662,16 +14635,16 @@ we'd go off like the others."
 
 "Davy, it 'ud be cruel of us to go and leave him."
 
-"I döan't say as I want to do that."
+"I döan't say as I want to do that."
 
-"Besides, it äun't likely as we'd do as well fur ourselves as Richard.
+"Besides, it äun't likely as we'd do as well fur ourselves as Richard.
 We've no Miss Bardon to trouble about us--reckon we'd come to grief like
 Albert."
 
 "Maybe we would."
 
 
-§ 9.
+§ 9.
 
 Four years later Reuben bought the farmstead of Totease. Brazier died,
 and the Manor, anxious as usual for ready money, put up his farm for
@@ -14711,12 +14684,12 @@ of her own. His indignation was immense when David refused this prize.
 
 "Well, I want something better than that."
 
-"She's got a hundred a year, and that 'ud mäake our fortunes at Odiam."
+"She's got a hundred a year, and that 'ud mäake our fortunes at Odiam."
 
 "Odiam's doing splendid--you don't want no more."
 
 "I justabout do. I shan't be satisfied till I've bought up Grandturzel
-säum as I've bought Totease."
+säum as I've bought Totease."
 
 "Well, I'm not going to sacrifice myself for Odiam, and you've no right
 to ask me, dad."
@@ -14724,7 +14697,7 @@ to ask me, dad."
 "If I haven't got a right to ask you that, wot have I, I'd lik to know?"
 
 
-§ 10.
+§ 10.
 
 In the spring of '99 old Jury died over at Cheat Land. His wife had died
 a year or two earlier--Reuben had meant to go over and see Alice, but
@@ -14764,7 +14737,7 @@ to make of the arid veldt what he had made of Boarzell.
 bin fur years and years, and they say as how that Transvaal's lik a
 desert. They've got mizzling liddle farms such as I wudn't give sixpence
 for--and all that gurt veldt's lik the palm of my hand, naun growing.
-They döan't deserve to have a country."
+They döan't deserve to have a country."
 
 He expressed himself so eloquently in this fashion that the member for
 the Rye division of Sussex--the borough had been disenfranchised in
@@ -14817,7 +14790,7 @@ Some of them in fact did go. Others remained, and sang:
        I will be dreaming of my own Bluebell."
 
 
-§ 11.
+§ 11.
 
 Quite early in the war David and William walked home in silence after
 seeing a troop-train off from Rye, then suddenly, when they came to
@@ -14860,7 +14833,7 @@ considerate--but he was knocked out by the blow.
 
 "We feel we've got to. They want all the young men."
 
-"But you could help your country just as well by staying at höame and
+"But you could help your country just as well by staying at höame and
 growing corn."
 
 "You can grow corn without us--we're wanted out there."
@@ -14906,7 +14879,7 @@ there, though his children forsook him--the good earth to which he would
 go at last.
 
 
-§ 12.
+§ 12.
 
 Reuben was now alone at Odiam--for the first time. Of course Harry was
 with him still, but Harry did not count. There was an extraordinary
@@ -14973,24 +14946,24 @@ hair. They soon came to know who he was.
 "'Tis old Mus' Backfield from Odiam farm by Peasmarsh. They say as he's
 a hard man."
 
-"They say as he's got the purtiest farm in Sussex--he's done wäonders
+"They say as he's got the purtiest farm in Sussex--he's done wäonders
 fur Odiam, surelye."
 
 "But his wife and children's run away."
 
 "They say he's a hard man."
 
-"And he's allus alöan."
+"And he's allus alöan."
 
-"He döan't seem to care for nobody--never gives you the good marnun."
+"He döan't seem to care for nobody--never gives you the good marnun."
 
-"It's larmentäable to see an old feller lik that all alöan, wudout
+"It's larmentäable to see an old feller lik that all alöan, wudout
 friend nor kin."
 
 "He's straight enough in spite of it all--game as a youngster he is."
 
 
-§ 13.
+§ 13.
 
 Meanwhile the South African War dragged its muddled length from
 Stormberg to Magersfontein, through Colenso to Spion Kop. It meant more
@@ -15051,7 +15024,7 @@ telegram. But the honour was taken sadly, for the telegram announced
 that Sergeant David Backfield had been killed in action at Laing's Nek.
 
 
-§ 14.
+§ 14.
 
 It was not the first time death had visited Reuben, but it was the first
 time death had touched him. His father's death, his mother's, George's,
@@ -15101,7 +15074,7 @@ who had lost his son, whom cottage women pitied from their
 doorsteps--and be hemmed to them, the sluts!
 
 
-§ 15.
+§ 15.
 
 Meantime affairs at Grandturzel were going from bad to worse. Reuben did
 not speak much about Grandturzel, but he watched it all the same, and as
@@ -15127,7 +15100,7 @@ though he occasionally made visits of inspection. Realf had messed his
 hops that autumn, and the popular verdict was that he could not possibly
 hold out much longer.
 
-"Wot'll become of him, I wäonder?" asked Hilder, the new man at
+"Wot'll become of him, I wäonder?" asked Hilder, the new man at
 Socknersh.
 
 "Someone 'ull buy him up, I reckon," and young Coalbran, who had
@@ -15152,23 +15125,23 @@ patched with shadows. Her grey hair was thin, and straggled on her
 forehead, her eyes had lost their brightness; yet there was nothing wild
 or terrible about her face, it was just domesticity in desperation.
 
-"Fäather," she said as Reuben came into the room.
+"Fäather," she said as Reuben came into the room.
 
 "Well?"
 
-"Henry döan't know I've come," she murmured helplessly.
+"Henry döan't know I've come," she murmured helplessly.
 
 "Wot have you come fur?"
 
-"To ask you--to ask you--Oh, fäather!" she burst into tears, her broad
+"To ask you--to ask you--Oh, fäather!" she burst into tears, her broad
 bosom heaved under her faded gown, and she pressed her hands against it
 as if to keep it still.
 
-"Döan't täake on lik that," said Reuben, "tell me wot you've come fur."
+"Döan't täake on lik that," said Reuben, "tell me wot you've come fur."
 
 "I dursn't now--it's no use--you're a hard man."
 
-"Then döan't come sobbing and howling in my parlour. You can go if
+"Then döan't come sobbing and howling in my parlour. You can go if
 you've naun more to say."
 
 She pulled herself together with an effort.
@@ -15181,11 +15154,11 @@ Reuben said nothing:
 
 Her father still said nothing.
 
-"I döan't know how we shall pull through another year."
+"I döan't know how we shall pull through another year."
 
 "Nor do I."
 
-"Oh, fäather, döan't be so hard!"
+"Oh, fäather, döan't be so hard!"
 
 "You said I wur a hard man."
 
@@ -15212,12 +15185,12 @@ come, and since she had come it must not be in vain; the worst was over
 now that she was actually here, that she had actually pleaded. She would
 face it out.
 
-"Fäather!" she called sharply.
+"Fäather!" she called sharply.
 
 He turned round.
 
 "I thought maybe you'd lend us some money--just fur a time--till we're
-straight agäun."
+straight agäun."
 
 "You'd better ask somebody else."
 
@@ -15238,10 +15211,10 @@ She shuddered.
 "This mortgage business alters 'em a bit. I'll have to think it over.
 Maybe I'll let you hear to-morrow mornun."
 
-"Oh, fäather, if only you'll do anything fur us, we'll bless you all our
+"Oh, fäather, if only you'll do anything fur us, we'll bless you all our
 lives."
 
-"I döan't want you to bless me--and maybe you wöan't täake my terms."
+"I döan't want you to bless me--and maybe you wöan't täake my terms."
 
 "I reckon we haven't much choice," she said sorrowfully.
 
@@ -15252,7 +15225,7 @@ Tilly opened her mouth to say something, but was wise, and held her
 tongue.
 
 
-§ 16.
+§ 16.
 
 The next morning Reuben sent his ultimatum to Grandturzel. He would pay
 off Realf's mortgage and put the farm into thorough repair, on condition
@@ -15284,7 +15257,7 @@ rest of his life than live as a hireling on the farm which had once been
 his own. But he hardly thought Realf would take such a stand--he would
 consider his wife and children, and accept for their sakes. "If he's got
 the sperrit to refuse I'll think better of him than I've ever thought in
-my life, and offer him a thousand fur the pläace--but I reckon I'm purty
+my life, and offer him a thousand fur the pläace--but I reckon I'm purty
 safe."
 
 He was right. Realf accepted his offer, partly persuaded by Tilly. His
@@ -15309,7 +15282,7 @@ conditions, and Tilly thanked heaven that she had sacrificed herself and
 gone to plead with her father.
 
 
-§ 17.
+§ 17.
 
 The whole of Boarzell now belonged to Odiam, except the Fair-place at
 the top. Reuben would stare covetously at the fir and gorse clump which
@@ -15325,7 +15298,7 @@ point at Boarzell, but when he had cut them down, grubbed up the gorse
 at their roots, ploughed over their place--then Boarzell would be lost,
 swallowed up in Odiam; it would be at most only a name, perhaps not even
 that. Sometimes Reuben shook his fist at the fir clump and muttered,
-"I'll have you yet, you see if I döan't, surelye."
+"I'll have you yet, you see if I döan't, surelye."
 
 Meantime he devoted his attention to the land he had just acquired. The
 Grandturzel inclosure was put under cultivation like the rest of
@@ -15413,7 +15386,7 @@ between that grew wider and wider, till at last they swallowed him up.
 For the first time in his life he had fainted.
 
 
-§ 18.
+§ 18.
 
 Reuben's last hope was now gone--for his family, at least. He was forced
 regretfully to the conclusion that he was not a successful family man.
@@ -15509,7 +15482,7 @@ They ran down towards the thickset hedge which divided the Fair-place
 from Odiam's land, and to his horror began to try to force their way
 through it, screaming piercingly the while. Reuben shouted to them:
 
-"Stop--you're spoiling my hëadge!"
+"Stop--you're spoiling my hëadge!"
 
 "He's after us--he'll catch us--O-o-oh!"
 
@@ -15544,7 +15517,7 @@ and everyone else was crowding round Backfield, thanking him, praising
 him, and shaking him by the hand. The women could hardly speak for
 gratitude--he became a hero in their eyes, a knight at arms.... "To
 think as how when all them young tellers up at the Fair wur no use, he
-shud risk his life to save us--he's a präaper valiant man."
+shud risk his life to save us--he's a präaper valiant man."
 
 But Reuben hardly enjoyed his position as a hero. He succeeded in
 breaking free from the crowd, now beginning to busy itself once more
@@ -15567,7 +15540,7 @@ BOOK VIII
 THE VICTORY
 
 
-§ 1.
+§ 1.
 
 The next year, Richard and Anne Backfield took a house at Playden for
 week-ends. Anne wanted to be near her relations at the Manor, and
@@ -15646,7 +15619,7 @@ grow as the grass, a golden harvest from east to west, bringing wealth
 and independence to her sons.
 
 
-§ 2.
+§ 2.
 
 The only part of the farm that was not doing well was Grandturzel. The
 new ground had been licked into shape under Reuben's personal
@@ -15712,7 +15685,7 @@ shower of sparks.
 The next minute Reuben had pulled on his trousers and was out in the
 passage, shouting "Fire!"
 
-The farm men came tumbling from the attics--"Whur, mäaster?"
+The farm men came tumbling from the attics--"Whur, mäaster?"
 
 "Over at Grandturzel--can't see wot's burning from here. Git buckets and
 come!"
@@ -15731,7 +15704,7 @@ see Realf and his two men, Dunk and Juglery, with Mrs. Realf, the
 girls, and young Sidney, passing buckets down from the pond and pouring
 them on the blazing stacks--with no effect at all.
 
-"The fools! Wot do they think they're a-doing of? Döan't they know how
+"The fools! Wot do they think they're a-doing of? Döan't they know how
 to put out a fire?"
 
 He quickened his pace till his men were afraid he would "bust himself,"
@@ -15742,9 +15715,9 @@ the bucket his son-in-law had just swung.
 
 "No."
 
-"Then git 'em out, you fool! You'll have the whole pläace a bonfire in a
+"Then git 'em out, you fool! You'll have the whole pläace a bonfire in a
 minnut. Wot's the use of throwing mugs of water lik this? You'll never
-put them ricks out. Säave your horses, säave your cows, säave your
+put them ricks out. Säave your horses, säave your cows, säave your
 poultry. Anyone gone for the firemen?"
 
 "Yes, I sent a boy over fust thing."
@@ -15754,8 +15727,8 @@ poultry. Anyone gone for the firemen?"
 "Cudn't spare a hand."
 
 "Cudn't spare one hand to fetch over fifteen--that's a valiant idea. Now
-döan't go loitering; fetch out your cattle afore they're roast beef, git
-out the horses and all the stock--and souse them ricks wot äun't burning
+döan't go loitering; fetch out your cattle afore they're roast beef, git
+out the horses and all the stock--and souse them ricks wot äun't burning
 yit."
 
 The men scurried in all directions obeying his orders. Soon terrified
@@ -15765,7 +15738,7 @@ passed up from the pond to the stacks that were not alight; but before
 this work was begun Reuben went up to the furthest stack and thrust his
 hand into it--then he put in his head and sniffed. Then he called Realf.
 
-"Cöame here."
+"Cöame here."
 
 Realf came.
 
@@ -15778,9 +15751,9 @@ Realf felt the hay and sniffed like Reuben.
 Realf went white to the lips, and said nothing.
 
 "I'll tell you wot it is, then!" cried Reuben--"it's bad stacking. This
-hay äun't bin präaperly dried--it's bin stacked damp, and them ricks
+hay äun't bin präaperly dried--it's bin stacked damp, and them ricks
 have gone alight o' themselves, bust up from inside. It's your doing,
-this here is, and I'll mäake you answer fur it, surelye."
+this here is, and I'll mäake you answer fur it, surelye."
 
 "I--I--the hay seemed right enough."
 
@@ -15812,7 +15785,7 @@ fire brigade, who endorsed his opinion of spontaneous combustion; and
 Realf of Grandturzel sat on a heap of ashes--and sobbed.
 
 
-§ 3.
+§ 3.
 
 That morning Reuben had a sleep after breakfast, and did not come down
 till dinner-time. He was told that Mrs. Realf wanted to see him and had
@@ -15830,60 +15803,60 @@ knees.
 
 "We've come," sobbed Tilly, "we've come to beg you to be merciful."
 
-"I wöan't listen to you while you're lik that."
+"I wöan't listen to you while you're lik that."
 
 The son sprang to his feet, and helped his mother, whose stoutness and
 stiffness made it a difficult matter, to rise too.
 
 "If you've come to ask me to kip you and your husband on at
-Grandturzel," said Reuben, "you might have säaved yourself the trouble,
+Grandturzel," said Reuben, "you might have säaved yourself the trouble,
 fur I'm shut of you both after last night."
 
-"Fäather, it wur an accident."
+"Fäather, it wur an accident."
 
 "A purty accident--wud them stacks no more dry than a ditch. 'Twas a
 clear case of 'bustion--fireman said so to me; as wicked and tedious a
 bit o' wark as ever I met in my life."
 
-"It'll never happen agäun."
+"It'll never happen agäun."
 
-"No--it wöan't."
+"No--it wöan't."
 
-"Oh, fäather--döan't be so hard on us. The Lord knows wot'll become of
+"Oh, fäather--döan't be so hard on us. The Lord knows wot'll become of
 us if you turn us out now. It 'ud have been better if we'd gone five
 years ago--Realf wur a more valiant man then nor wot he is now. He'll
-never be able to start agäun--he äun't fit fur it."
+never be able to start agäun--he äun't fit fur it."
 
-"Then he äun't fit to work on my land. I äun't a charity house. I can't
+"Then he äun't fit to work on my land. I äun't a charity house. I can't
 afford to kip a man wud no backbone and no wits. I've bin too kind as it
-is--I shud have got shut of him afore he burnt my pläace to cinders."
+is--I shud have got shut of him afore he burnt my pläace to cinders."
 
 "But wot's to become of us?"
 
-"That's no consarn of mine--äun't you säaved anything?"
+"That's no consarn of mine--äun't you säaved anything?"
 
-"How cud we, fäather?"
+"How cud we, fäather?"
 
-"I could have säaved two pound a month on Realf's wage."
+"I could have säaved two pound a month on Realf's wage."
 
 Tilly had a spurt of anger.
 
 "Yes--you'd have gone short of everything and made other folks go
-short--but we äun't that kind."
+short--but we äun't that kind."
 
-"You äun't. That's why I'm turning you away."
+"You äun't. That's why I'm turning you away."
 
 Her tears welled up afresh.
 
-"Oh, fäather, I'm sorry I spöake lik that. Döan't be angry wud me fur
-saying wot I did. I'll own as we might have managed better--only döan't
+"Oh, fäather, I'm sorry I spöake lik that. Döan't be angry wud me fur
+saying wot I did. I'll own as we might have managed better--only döan't
 send us away--fur this liddle chap's sake," and she pulled forward young
 Sidney, who was crying too.
 
 "Where are your other sons?"
 
 "Harry's got a wife and children to keep--he cudn't help us; and
-Johnnie's never mäade more'n fifteen shilling a week since the war."
+Johnnie's never mäade more'n fifteen shilling a week since the war."
 
 Reuben stood silent for a moment, staring at the boy.
 
@@ -15894,22 +15867,22 @@ Reuben stood silent for a moment, staring at the boy.
 There was another silence. Then suddenly Reuben went to the door and
 opened it.
 
-"There's no use you waiting and vrothering me--my mind's mäade up."
+"There's no use you waiting and vrothering me--my mind's mäade up."
 
-"Fäather, fur pity's säake----"
+"Fäather, fur pity's säake----"
 
-"Döan't talk nonsense. How can I sit here and see my land messed about
+"Döan't talk nonsense. How can I sit here and see my land messed about
 by a fool, jest because he happens to have married my darter?--and
-agäunst my wish, too. I'm sorry fur you, Tilly, but you're still young
-enough to work. I'm eighty-five, and I äun't stopped working yet, so
-döan't go saying you're too old. Your gals can go out to service ... and
+agäunst my wish, too. I'm sorry fur you, Tilly, but you're still young
+enough to work. I'm eighty-five, and I äun't stopped working yet, so
+döan't go saying you're too old. Your gals can go out to service ... and
 this liddle chap here ..."
 
 He stopped speaking, and stared at the lad, chin in hand.
 
 "He can work too, I suppose?" said Tilly bitterly.
 
-"I wur going to say as how I've täaken a liking to him. He looks a
+"I wur going to say as how I've täaken a liking to him. He looks a
 valiant liddle feller, and if you'll hand him over to me and have no
 more part nor lot in him, I'll see as he doesn't want."
 
@@ -15919,27 +15892,27 @@ Tilly gasped.
 else to leave it to that I can see. All my children have forsook me; but
 maybe this boy 'ud be better than they."
 
-"You mean that if we let you adopt Sidney, you'll mäake Odiam his when
+"You mean that if we let you adopt Sidney, you'll mäake Odiam his when
 you're gone?"
 
-"I döan't say for sartain--if he turns out a präaper lad and is a
-comfort to me and loves this pläace as none of my own children have ever
+"I döan't say for sartain--if he turns out a präaper lad and is a
+comfort to me and loves this pläace as none of my own children have ever
 loved it----"
 
 But Tilly interrupted him. Putting her arm round the terrified boy's
 shoulders, she led him through the door.
 
-"Thanks, fäather, but if you offered to give us to-day every penny
+"Thanks, fäather, but if you offered to give us to-day every penny
 you've got, I'd let you have no child of mine. Maybe we'll be poor and
-miserable and have to work hard, but he wöan't be one-half so wretched
+miserable and have to work hard, but he wöan't be one-half so wretched
 wud us as he'd be wud you. D'you think I disremember my own childhood
-and the way you mäade us suffer? You're an old man, but you're
+and the way you mäade us suffer? You're an old man, but you're
 hearty--you might live to a hundred--and I'd justabout die of sorrow if
-I thought any child of mine wur living wud you and being mäade as
-miserable as you mäade us. _I'd rather see my boy dead than at Odiam._"
+I thought any child of mine wur living wud you and being mäade as
+miserable as you mäade us. _I'd rather see my boy dead than at Odiam._"
 
 
-§ 4.
+§ 4.
 
 There was a big outcry in Peasmarsh against Backfield's treatment of the
 Realfs. Not a farmer in the district would have kept on a hand who had
@@ -16020,7 +15993,7 @@ in his heart and he held out both hands.
 "Good afternoon," she replied, putting one hand in his, and withdrawing
 it almost immediately.
 
-"I--I--äun't you pleased to see me?"
+"I--I--äun't you pleased to see me?"
 
 "I thought you'd forgotten all about me, certainly."
 
@@ -16035,13 +16008,13 @@ travelled so far that they could scarcely hear each other's voices
 across the country that divided them. Alice broke the silence by
 offering him some tea.
 
-"Thanks, but I döan't täake tea--I've never held wud it."
+"Thanks, but I döan't täake tea--I've never held wud it."
 
 "How are you, Reuben? I've heard a lot about you, but nothing from you
 yourself. Is it true that you've sent away your daughter and her family
 from Grandturzel?"
 
-"Yes--after they burnt the pläace down to the ground."
+"Yes--after they burnt the pläace down to the ground."
 
 "And where are they now?"
 
@@ -16049,7 +16022,7 @@ from Grandturzel?"
 
 Alice said nothing, and Reuben fired up a little:
 
-"I daresay you think badly of me, lik everyone else. But if a man mäade
+"I daresay you think badly of me, lik everyone else. But if a man mäade
 a bonfire of your new stacks, I reckon you wouldn't say 'thank'ee,' and
 raise his wages."
 
@@ -16058,7 +16031,7 @@ Another pause--then Alice said:
 "How are you getting on with Boarzell? I hear that most of it's yours
 now."
 
-"All except the Fair-pläace--and I mean to have that in a year or two,
+"All except the Fair-pläace--and I mean to have that in a year or two,
 surelye."
 
 This time it was she that kindled:
@@ -16066,8 +16039,8 @@ This time it was she that kindled:
 "You talk as if you'd all your life before you--and you must be nearly
 eighty-five."
 
-"I döan't feel old--at least not often. I still feel young enough to
-have a whack at the Fair-pläace."
+"I döan't feel old--at least not often. I still feel young enough to
+have a whack at the Fair-pläace."
 
 "So you haven't changed your idea of happiness?"
 
@@ -16081,16 +16054,16 @@ nothing."
 
 "I don't think you understand."
 
-"My old fäather used to say--'I want nothing that I haven't got, and so
-I've got nothing that I döan't want, surelye.'"
+"My old fäather used to say--'I want nothing that I haven't got, and so
+I've got nothing that I döan't want, surelye.'"
 
 "It's all part of the same idea, only of course he had many more things
 than I have. I'm a poor woman, and lonely, and getting old. But"--and a
 ring of exaltation came into her voice, and the light of it into her
 eyes--"I want nothing."
 
-"I wish you'd talk plain. If you never want anything, then you äun't
-präaperly alive. So you äun't happy--because you're dead."
+"I wish you'd talk plain. If you never want anything, then you äun't
+präaperly alive. So you äun't happy--because you're dead."
 
 "You don't understand me. It's not because I'm dead and sluggish that I
 don't want anything, but because I've had fight enough in me to triumph
@@ -16117,9 +16090,9 @@ anyone else. Can't you see that _it's bin worth while_?"
 "What do you mean?"
 
 "Why, that it's worth losing all those things that I may get the one big
-thing I want. Döan't you see that Boarzell and Odiam are worth more to
+thing I want. Döan't you see that Boarzell and Odiam are worth more to
 me than wife or family or than you, Alice. Come to that, you've got none
-o' them things either, and you haven't a farm to mäake up fur it. So
+o' them things either, and you haven't a farm to mäake up fur it. So
 even if I wur sorry fur wot I'm not sorry fur, I'm still happier than
 you."
 
@@ -16131,7 +16104,7 @@ They had both risen and faced each other, anger in their eyes. But their
 antagonism had lost that vital quality which had once made it the salt
 of their friendship.
 
-"You döan't understand me," said Reuben--"I'd better go."
+"You döan't understand me," said Reuben--"I'd better go."
 
 "You don't understand me," said Alice--"you can't."
 
@@ -16152,8 +16125,8 @@ Reuben drove back slowly through the October afternoon. A transparent
 brede of mist lay over the fields, occasionally torn by sunlight.
 Everything was very quiet--sounds of labour stole across the valley from
 distant farms, and the barking of a dog at Stonelink seemed close at
-hand. Now and then the old man muttered to himself: "We döan't
-understand each other--we döan't forgive each other--we've lost each
+hand. Now and then the old man muttered to himself: "We döan't
+understand each other--we döan't forgive each other--we've lost each
 other. We've lost each other."
 
 He knew now that Alice was lost. The whole of Boarzell lay between them.
@@ -16181,7 +16154,7 @@ land--more to me than Alice." Then with a sudden fierceness:
 "I'm shut of her!"
 
 
-§ 5.
+§ 5.
 
 The next year came the great Unionist collapse. The Government which had
 bumped perilously through the South African war, went on the rocks of an
@@ -16202,7 +16175,7 @@ but he did his best to dissemble his excitement.
 and furrin-looking at first, but naun to spik of when you're used to
 'em. Well I remember when the first railway train wur run from Rye to
 Hastings--and most people too frightened to go in it, though it never
-mäade more'n ten mile an hour."
+mäade more'n ten mile an hour."
 
 Though the country in general chose to go to the dogs, Reuben had the
 consolation of seeing a Conservative returned for Rye. He put this down
@@ -16220,28 +16193,28 @@ if it were more important. His mind recaptured the details with
 startling clearness--the crowd in the market-place, the fight with
 Coalbran, the sheep's entrails that were flung about ... and suddenly,
 sitting there in his arm-chair, he found himself muttering: "that hemmed
-gëate!"
+gëate!"
 
 It must be old age. He pulled himself together, as a farm-hand came into
 the room. It was Boorman, one of the older lot, who had just come back
 from Rye.
 
-"Good about the poll, mäaster, wurn't it?" he said--the older men were
+"Good about the poll, mäaster, wurn't it?" he said--the older men were
 always more cordial towards Reuben than the youngsters. They had seen
 how he could work.
 
 "Unaccountable good."
 
-"I mäade sure as how Mus' Courthope ud git in. 'Täun't so long since we
+"I mäade sure as how Mus' Courthope ud git in. 'Täun't so long since we
 sent up another Unionist--seems strange when you and me remembers that a
 Tory never sat fur Rye till '85."
 
 "When did you come back?"
 
-"I've only just come in, mäaster. Went räound to the London Trader after
+"I've only just come in, mäaster. Went räound to the London Trader after
 hearing the poll. By the way, I picked up a piece of news thur--old
 Jury's darter wot used to be at Cheat Land has just died. Bob Hilder
-töald me--seems as she lodges wud his sister."
+töald me--seems as she lodges wud his sister."
 
 "Um."
 
@@ -16255,7 +16228,7 @@ your position."
 
 "Yes--a liddle stick of a woman. That'll do, now."
 
-Boorman went out, grumbling at "th' öald feller's cussedness," and
+Boorman went out, grumbling at "th' öald feller's cussedness," and
 Reuben sat on without moving.
 
 Alice was dead--she had died in his hour of triumph. Just when he had
@@ -16271,9 +16244,9 @@ heavy dead thing that knew neither joy nor sorrow. Reuben was feeling
 old again.
 
 
-§ 6.
+§ 6.
 
-"Please, mäaster, there's trouble on the farm."
+"Please, mäaster, there's trouble on the farm."
 
 Reuben started out of the half-waking state into which he had fallen. It
 was late in the afternoon, the sunlight had gone, and a wintry twilight
@@ -16295,15 +16268,15 @@ towards him, with three rather guilty-looking young men.
 
 "Wot's happened?" he called to Boorman.
 
-"Only this, mäaster--Dunk and me found Mus' Fleet a-tearing about the
+"Only this, mäaster--Dunk and me found Mus' Fleet a-tearing about the
 Glotten meadow wud two of his friends, trying to fix Radical posters on
-the cows--seems as they'd räaked up one or two o' them old Ben the
+the cows--seems as they'd räaked up one or two o' them old Ben the
 Gorilla posters wot used to be about Peasmarsh, and they'd stuck one on
 Tawny and one on Cowslip, and wur fair racing the other beasts to death.
-Then when me and the lads cöame up and interfere, they want to fight
-us--and when we täake höald of 'em, seeing as they 'pear to be a liddle
+Then when me and the lads cöame up and interfere, they want to fight
+us--and when we täake höald of 'em, seeing as they 'pear to be a liddle
 the wuss for drink, why Mus' Fleet he pulls out a liddle pistol and
-shoots all around, and hits poor öald Dumpling twice over."
+shoots all around, and hits poor öald Dumpling twice over."
 
 "Look here, farmer," said one of the young men--"we're awfully sorry,
 and we'll settle with you about that cow. We were only having a rag.
@@ -16339,7 +16312,7 @@ mercy, starting with twenty pounds.
 simply can't hand him over to the police--his father's Squire of the
 Manor, and it would be no end of a scandal."
 
-"I know who his fäather is, thank'ee," said Reuben.
+"I know who his fäather is, thank'ee," said Reuben.
 
 Then suddenly a great, a magnificent, a triumphant idea struck him. He
 nearly staggered under the force of it. He was like a general who sees
@@ -16394,8 +16367,8 @@ police."
 "Oh, certainly, certainly. You surely wouldn't think of doing that,
 Backfield. I promise you the full value of the cow."
 
-"Quite so, Squire. But it äun't the cow as I'm vrothered about so much
-as these things always happening. This äun't the first 'rag,' as he
+"Quite so, Squire. But it äun't the cow as I'm vrothered about so much
+as these things always happening. This äun't the first 'rag,' as he
 calls it, wot he's had on my farm. I've complained to you before."
 
 "I know you have, and I promise you nothing of this kind shall ever
@@ -16419,10 +16392,10 @@ relieved affability crept into his manner.
 feelings are more important to you than your cow. We'll do our best to
 meet you. What do you value them at, eh?"
 
-"The Fair-pläace."
+"The Fair-pläace."
 
 
-§ 7.
+§ 7.
 
 He had triumphed. He had beaten down the last resistance of the enemy,
 won the last stronghold of Boarzell. It was all his now, from the clayey
@@ -16508,7 +16481,7 @@ always lived mercifully and blamelessly he had reaped the reward of a
 happy old age.
 
 
-§ 8.
+§ 8.
 
 Reuben did not go to the Fair that autumn--there being no reason why he
 should and several why he shouldn't. He went instead to see Richard, who
@@ -16528,7 +16501,7 @@ interest, be it said with shame--and he was anxious to surround himself
 with those who might be useful to him. Besides, he was one of those men
 who breathe more freely in an atmosphere of Culture. Apart from mere
 utilitarian questions, he liked to talk over the latest books, the
-latest _cause célèbre_ or diplomatic _coup d'étât_. Anne, very upright,
+latest _cause célèbre_ or diplomatic _coup d'étât_. Anne, very upright,
 very desiccated, poured out tea, and Reuben noted with satisfaction that
 Nature had beaten her at the battle of the dressing-table. Richard, on
 the other hand, in spite of an accentuation of the legal profile, looked
@@ -16571,7 +16544,7 @@ be done. And why should we want to do it?--is not Nature the Mother and
 Nurse of us all?--and is it not best for us simply to lie on her bosom
 and trust her for our welfare?"
 
-"If I'd a-done that," said Reuben, "I shouldn't have an acre to my näum,
+"If I'd a-done that," said Reuben, "I shouldn't have an acre to my näum,
 surelye."
 
 "And what do you want with an acre? What is an acre but a man's toy--a
@@ -16639,7 +16612,7 @@ thought no man could possibly do. It's really rather splendid of him."
 socks.
 
 
-§ 9.
+§ 9.
 
 Reuben drove slowly homewards through the brooding October dusk. The
 music of the Fair crept after him up the Foreign, and from the crest he
@@ -16705,7 +16678,7 @@ heel, and given him the earth as his reward.
 "I've won," he said softly to himself, while behind him the blazing
 gorse spat and crackled and sent flames up almost to the clouds with
 triumphant roars--"I've won--and it's bin worth while. I've wanted a
-thing, and I've got it, surelye--and I äun't too old to enjoy it,
+thing, and I've got it, surelye--and I äun't too old to enjoy it,
 nuther. I may live to be a hunderd, a man of my might. But if I go next
 week, I shan't complain, fur I've lived to see my heart's desire. I've
 fought and I've suffered, and I've gone hard and gone rough and gone
@@ -16723,365 +16696,4 @@ PRINTED BY WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND
 
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