Depper

"I swore I wouldn't," she said to herself as she went along; "but I'm dinged if the sight o 'Depper's old woman a-crawlin' arter them mamucked up bits o 'dough ha'n't tarned my stomach!"

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Depper said, and paused, door in hand, on his own freshly-washed step.

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And I can see with half an eye the bute is on t'other fut, Depper.

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These, with much banging and shaking, she spread upon the downstairs couch, indicating to the still weeping Depper it was there he was expected to pass the night.

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They sent for Depper to the White Hart to come home and see his wife die.

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Small wonder that Depper -- his name was William Kittle, a fact of which the neighbourhood made no practical use, which he himself only recalled with an effort -- preferred to the dirt, untidiness and squalor of his own abode the spick-and-span cleanliness of Dinah Brome's.

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Depper cried, as, her work being finished, she moved to the door.

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Depper had made arrangements already for the payment of the eleven pounds from the burial-club; he had drunk a pint or two extra, daily, for the last week, the innkeeper being willing to trust him, in consideration of the expected windfall.

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If ever there was a wife who was kep 'short, and used hard, that was _yer_ wife, Depper, my man!

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Depper shed as many tears over his old woman as would have been expected from the best husband in the world; and Car'line let her dying gaze rest on him with as much affection, perhaps, as if he had indeed been that ideal person.

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