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"It's a bad night, Mattha Branthet," said a new-comer. "Dost tak me for a born idiot?" asked the old man. "Dost think I duddent known that afore I saw thee, that thou must be blodderen oot, It's a bad neet, Mattha Branthet?" There was a dash of rustic spite in the old man's humor which gave it an additional relish. "Ye munnet think to win through the world on a feather bed, lad," he added.
"She meant no harm, Matthew." "But why duddent she mean some good and run bull-neck to-neet to bring ye the bettermer news?" "Better news, Matthew? What is it?" asked Rotha eagerly, but with more apprehension than pleasure in her tone. "Why, that the constables hev gone," said Matthew. "Gone!" "Gone! Another of the same sort came to-day to leet them, and away they've gone together."
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