Excerpt from Sheer Off: A Tale

"Why, there are the church bells a-ringing! as if it wasn't enough to have all the schoolboys going in procession with their garlands, and nosegays, and nonsense! " exclaimed Nancy Sands, the wife of the Clerk of Colme, as she stood in the shop of Ben Stone the carpenter, with her arms a-kimbo, and an expression anything but amiable upon her flushed face. " One might fancy that our new young baronet was a-coming home, or bringing a bride, or that the queen and all the royal family were a-visiting Colme, instead of this fuss being for nothing but the christening of a school-master's brat!"

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