Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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Canât wink: and twopence shuts their bravest stare.
So, ghosts wonât trouble my rest at Krindlesyke. I vowed that Iâd sleep sound at Krindlesyke, When I ... JUDITH: You cannot bide. JIM: I bear no malice. Why canât you let bygones be bygones? But thatâs A woman all over; must be raking up The ashes into a glow, and puffing them red, To roast a man for what he did, or didnât, Twenty-year syne. Why should you still bear malice? JUDITH: I bear no malice: but you cannot bide. JIM: Why do you keep cuckooing âcannot, cannotâ? And whoâs to turn me out of Krindlesyke, Where I was born and bred, Iâd like to ken? You canât gainsay itâs my home. JUDITH: Not your home now. JIM: Then who the devilâs home ... |
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