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Palling hurried in, with excitement and pleasure written large on her homely face, that Isabella became aware that she had been called already several times. "Miss! miss! there's the pony-shay from the High House a-comin' along the lane. 'Twill be the young lady for a cup o' tea, for sure.
I called at his house on my return, about three hours afterwards, having made up my mind to have it out with him, when they positively told me or at least Polly Cheeseman did that I must be mistaken about her 'dear papa, because he was gone in the pony-shay all the way to Uckfield, and would not be back till night." "The nasty little story-teller!" Mrs. Twemlow cried.
'Ay, sir, a weak wambling man am I; and the frying have been going on in my poor head all through the long night and this morning as usual; and I was so dazed wi' it that down fell a piece of leg-wood across the shaft of the pony-shay, and splintered it off.
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