a-quietly

Updated: June 9, 2025

"Well, miss," she said, "Lord, to think that I sha'n't be able to call you that no longer I haven't got nothing in particular to say agin it, seeing that sure enough the man's a-dying, as I has on good authority from my own aunt's cousin, her that does the servants' washing up at the Hall, and mighty bad she does it, begging of her pardon for the disparagement, and so he won't trouble you for long, and somehow it do seem as though you hadn't got no choice left in the matter, just as though everybody and everything was a-quietly pushing you into it.

Henry Rider Haggard - Dawn