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Updated: May 18, 2025
I don't know how it'll be then. But here's Mrs. Lewis; she's a-scolding of Jackie for swinging on that 'ere gate. Naughty boy; he's been told twenty times not to swing on the gate." Esther complained that they had stayed too long, that he had made her late, and treated his questions about Jackie with indifference.
"Nay, wife," said he, "weep not neither for a soldier's hasty word. I mean not all I said. Why, your house is your own, and what right in it have I? There now, I'll go." "What is to do?" said a grave manly voice. It was Eli; he had come in from the shop. "Here is a ruffian been a-scolding of your women folk and making them cry," explained Denys.
"Why, Lord, aunt, what are you so angry for? there's no speaking a word, but you fly into a passion: you're as bad as Biddy, or Poll, for that, for you're always a-scolding." "I desire, Tom," cried Miss Branghton, "you'd speak for yourself, and not make so free with my name." "There, now, she's up!
"'You lie! says the old man from the bedroom, speaking as loud and f'erce as ever you heard. 'They hung him to the yard-arm! "'Don't mind him, says Andrew; 'he's wandering-like, and he had a bad dream along back in the spring; I s'posed he'd forgotten it. But the Decker fellow he turned pale, and kept talking crooked while he listened to old Peletiah a-scolding to himself.
She had herself a long neck and a round body and flat feet, going waddling and hissing about the house, a-scolding of her maids, like any Michaelmas matron among the stubble; not to forget her children, of whom she had a flock, waddling and hissing in their little way too, and who were all as like goslings as Sherris is like Sack.
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