| (1, 0) 38 | Well, thank goodness, that's done. |
| (1, 0) 39 | I've just written to Lizzie Ann. |
| (1, 0) 40 | You'll have her back here on Monday. |
| (1, 0) 43 | Well, anyhow, back she'll be on Monday. |
| (1, 0) 47 | I'm glad I've done those two letters. |
| (1, 0) 48 | It's a job I can't abide ─ writing letters. |
| (1, 0) 49 | Comes of having so little schooling, I suppose. |
| (1, 0) 52 | Aay, my gel. |
| (1, 0) 53 | Finished at last! |
| (1, 0) 57 | Aay, my gel, I've put it in. |
| (1, 0) 62 | Don't you get low-hearted, Gwen fach. |
| (1, 0) 63 | It's all for the best. |
| (1, 0) 64 | You know yourself that Doctor Willie Jenkins was saying only the other day that part of Australia is the very place for a man in consumption. |
| (1, 0) 65 | It's lucky for us Myfanw' asked us to send him out, and her knowing that he's ill, too. |
| (1, 0) 69 | Of course, Gwen |
| (1, 0) 70 | Of course! |
| (1, 0) 75 | Think, Gwen, think what it means! |
| (1, 0) 76 | A few years, and then, after all the praying and heart-breaking we've had for him, we'll have him back again ─ a fine, strong man! |
| (1, 0) 83 | How d'you spell "endeavoring," Gwen? |
| (1, 0) 89 | Oh, indeed! |
| (1, 0) 90 | And let her husband think I haven't got any English, and him and me not speaking when they left Aberpandy? |
| (1, 0) 91 | No fear! |
| (1, 0) 93 | Aay! |
| (1, 0) 94 | If I'd only had a bit of schooling! |
| (1, 0) 95 | The chances they get to-day ─ board-school, intermediate, college! |
| (1, 0) 99 | Look like? |
| (1, 0) 100 | Who? |
| (1, 0) 107 | Gwen fach, you're always thinking of the boys! |
| (1, 0) 115 | Aay, the strike! |
| (1, 0) 116 | One after another ─ strike, strike, strike! |
| (1, 0) 117 | Couldn't you get one on old account from Parry the Fish Shop? |
| (1, 0) 121 | Aay, there you are! |
| (1, 0) 123 | And that's the lot our Lewis is in with! |
| (1, 0) 124 | And a respectable man like me, that's paid his way all his life, has got to suffer for a gang of rodneys willing to shout with any fool that lifts his finger. |
| (1, 0) 126 | They're down there now in the Drill Hall picking their new candidate for Parliament ─ and a fine beauty they will pick, too! |
| (1, 0) 134 | Oh, he'll be respectable enough for my sister Myfanw', don't you fear! |
| (1, 0) 135 | I don't see that she's got grounds to be over particular. |
| (1, 0) 137 | Aay, I do! |
| (1, 0) 139 | She was a disgrace to the family was our Vanw'. |
| (1, 0) 140 | There was her father had been a deacon all those years, and me just made superintendent of the Sunday-school! |
| (1, 0) 144 | He was a respectable, God-fearing man and died without any one being able to say he owed so much as a ha'penny. |
| (1, 0) 145 | And he lived in his own house for twenty years ─ freehold, mind you, too! |
| (1, 0) 150 | There is a bit of likeness, it's true. |
| (1, 0) 151 | And there's no denying he's got a grand voice. |
| (1, 0) 154 | Oh, yes! |
| (1, 0) 156 | "We are expecting our John Henry back from college ─" |
| (1, 0) 159 | "From the University in Cardiff to-morrow or the day after. |
| (1, 0) 160 | I think I told you before that he is preparing for the ministry. |
| (1, 0) 161 | He is now in his second year, and next year he will be trying for the B.A." |
| (1, 0) 164 | "Perhaps he will study for the B.D. afterward, but that isn't quite settled yet. |
| (1, 0) 165 | Fortunately ─ {Gwen looks up at the long word} ─ fortunately he won a County Exhibition, so that we don't have to keep him altogether." |
| (1, 0) 169 | That was a grand sermon he gave us last Christmas, Gwen ─ a grand sermon! |
| (1, 0) 170 | There aren't many not yet out of college would venture on a text like that ─ "In the beginning was the Word" ─ "Yn y dechreuad yr oedd y Gair." |
| (1, 0) 171 | I can't understand him sending Isaac Pugh's William Ewart up to Treherbert the other Sunday. |
| (1, 0) 172 | Must have been a great disappointment to them up there. |
| (1, 0) 174 | I can't say Isaac Pugh was very enthusiastic about the sermon last Christmas, though the other deacons praised it beyond. |
| (1, 0) 176 | No. |
| (1, 0) 177 | He couldn't stomach it was our John Henry won the County Exhibition, and not his William Ewart. |
| (1, 0) 178 | And then he's so set on giving the call to Jones of Dowlais. |
| (1, 0) 179 | He's getting that polite, is Isaac Pugh, I can hardly abide talking to him. |
| (1, 0) 183 | "You'll be glad to hear that, after being without a regular pastor since Roberts and his gang started the split at Bethania, we're going to give a call in Horeb at last." |
| (1, 0) 185 | I don't know, Gwen, if you've been thinking what I've been thinking about this call. |
| (1, 0) 189 | Well, it would be a grand thing if John Henry had finished college and could have it, wouldn't it now? |
| (1, 0) 190 | Of course, it's only seven pound a month, but he'd be able to work it up. |
| (1, 0) 199 | Dewch nawr, Gwen! |
| (1, 0) 200 | Dewch! |
| (1, 0) 201 | It's no use looking at it like that. |
| (1, 0) 238 | Wel, Gwilym, ffor' ma'i nawr, machan-i? |
| (1, 0) 241 | I was telling your mother after dinner you ought to lie down a bit in the afternoons. |
| (1, 0) 261 | That feller Pinkerton, I suppose. |
| (1, 0) 294 | Aay, I've heard. |
| (1, 0) 297 | It's men like him are the curse of South Wales to-day. |
| (1, 0) 298 | Who is he, I'd like to know, that he should be made a proper "god" of? |
| (1, 0) 299 | I've been in the valley here now for sixty years. |
| (1, 0) 300 | I remember Aberpandy before ever the Powell-Griffiths sank the first pit, and the sheep of Pandy Farm were grazing quiet where the Bryndu Pit is now. |
| (1, 0) 301 | And I never so much as heard talk of this fellow Pinkerton till two or three years ago. |
| (1, 0) 306 | Aay, Gwilym, a change, a sad change, and a bad one. |
| (1, 0) 307 | A good, steady man is Evan Davies ─ a tidy, respectable man, and been a deacon for twenty years I know of. |
| (1, 0) 308 | I remember the time when we went down the valley together to see Gladstone. |
| (1, 0) 310 | Aay ─ yr hên Gladstone! |
| (1, 0) 311 | There was a man for you! |
| (1, 0) 312 | And look at this feller Pinkerton. |
| (1, 0) 313 | D'you ever hear of him so much as darkening the door of a chapel ─ or even of the Church for a matter of that? |
| (1, 0) 314 | Why can't he hold his old meetings on some other day than Sunday? |
| (1, 0) 315 | Isn't it hard enough to keep the congregation together without him and his meetings? |
| (1, 0) 316 | "Six days shalt thou labor" ─ "Chwe diwrnod y gweithi" ─ isn't it written? |
| (1, 0) 317 | But, of course, that don't count to-day. |
| (1, 0) 334 | I heard your William Ewart did very well up in Treherbert the other Sunday. |