The Byram Succession
“I’m right-down sorry but I just daresn’t. I’m not clever nor quick like gentry folk, even if me mam did say me dad was a gen’leman born. I’d make a mull of it as sure as eggs is eggs. And if I was caught it’d be the jail at least if it wasn’t transportation.”“But I was relying on you, Toby. You said you would do anything for me. Not once, but several times you swore it. And this is such a small thing. I can’t do it for myself because I don’t understand about carriages, but you could do it so ea...sily. Please!” Tina’s eyes were great beseeching pools; her mouth drooped pathetically.The lad’s face crimsoned, an ugly, dull flush which sorted ill with his sandy hair and pale blue eyes. But the eyes returned Tina’s gaze squarely, though he licked his lips nervously. “Yes, miss. I know I did. But I meant anything in the line o’ duty, and me not wanting to be paid for it. Meddling with a gentleman’s carriage is different. Even if I could do it—which I don’t say as I couldn’t, ’cos there’s ’alf a dozen different ways o’ making a vehickle break down haccidental-like and no one to know no better—Who’s to say what would come of it?MoreLess
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