Sentence:  As we left the cemetery, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the <WSD>yob</WSD> did much living by eighteen."/ I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that <WSD>"yob</WSD>" did plenty of living.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A boy.