ans'rable

Updated: June 11, 2025

Again I made some demur, and then the old man said, speaking fiercely through his grizzly beard: "Look 'ere, missie. I 'ave a gel o' my own lost somewheres, and I wouldn't be ans'rable to my ole woman if I let you walk with a face like that." I don't know what I said to him. I only know that my tears gushed out and that at the next moment I was sitting in the cab.

Sir Hall Caine - The Woman Thou Gavest Me: Being the Story of Mary O'Neill