My Neighbours
said to Abel. "Going am I to London. Heavy shall I be there. None of the dirty English are like me."
"Already have I borrowed for your college. No more do I want to have. How if I sell a horse?"
"Sell you the horse too, my father bach."
"Done much have I for you," Abel said. "Fairish I must be with your sisters."
"Why for you cavil like that, father? The money of mam came to Deinol. Am I not her son?"
Though his daughters murmured—"We wake at the caw of the crows," they said, "and weary in the young of the day"—Abel obeyed his son, who thereupon departed and came to Thornton East to the house of Catherine Jenkins, a widow woman, with whom he took the appearance of a burning lover.
Though he preached with a view at many English chapels in London, none called him. He caused Abel to sell cattle
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