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All the boldness she had shown at the Spotted Deer had vanished. She was now the mere trembling and guilty woman. The lock on Bolderfield's box had been forced long before; it opened to her hand. A heap of sovereigns and half-sovereigns lay on one side, divided by a wooden partition from the few silver coins, crowns and half-crowns, still lying on the other.
He had small need to threaten her with blows every word stabbed. But her turn had come to strike back. She raised her head; she measured her news against his; and she did it with a kind of exultation. 'Then I will tell yer an I 'ope it ull do yer good. I took thirty-one pound o' Bolderfield's money then but it warn't me took the rest. Some one else tuk it, an I stood by an saw 'im.
Saunders, the smith's wife, was applauded when she said to her neighbours that 'you couldn't expeck a man with John Bolderfield's money to have as many feelins as other people. Whence it would seem that the capitalist is no more truly popular in small societies than in large. John, however, did not trouble himself about these things.
All the boldness she had shown at the 'Spotted Deer' had vanished. She was now the mere trembling and guilty woman. The lock on Bolderfield's box had been forced long before; it opened to her hand. A heap of sovereigns and half-sovereigns lay on one side, divided by a wooden partition from the few silver coins, crowns and half-crowns, still lying on the other.
Nevertheless, these things did not avail. It was felt instinctively that he was not beaten down as he ought to have been, and Mrs. Saunders, the smith's wife, was applauded when she said to her neighbours that "you couldn't expeck a man with John Bolderfield's money to have as many feelin's as other people."
He had small need to threaten her with blows every word stabbed. But her turn had come to strike back. She raised her head; she measured her news against his; and she did it with a kind of exultation. "Then I will tell yer an' I 'ope it 'ull do yer good. I took thirty-one pound o' Bolderfield's money then but it warn't me took the rest. Some one else tuk it, an' I stood by an' saw 'im.
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