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I 'ain't got no gov'nor, boy. The master as belongs to me is a mis'ess. Bill. Then that 'ere gen'lemen as comes an' goes, ain't your master eh? James. What gen'leman, stoopid? Bill. Oh! it don't matter. James. What have you got to say to him? Bill. Some'at pickled: it'll keep. James. I'll give him a message, if you like. Bill.
Wirra! wirra! It's myself is sorry I was so rude. It's not me; it's my temper, mis'ess. I do believe I was born with a devil inside me." I could not help laughing, partly from amusement, partly from relief. "But you see I can't ask you to stop," I said. "I've got no money, not even enough to pay you to-day; so I can't keep you." "I don't want no money, ma'am.
"I not only happened to be there," said Fairway, with a fresh collection of emphasis, "but I was sitting in the same pew as Mis'ess Yeobright. And though you may not see it as such, it fairly made my blood run cold to hear her. Yes, it is a curious thing; but it made my blood run cold, for I was close at her elbow."
'Well, be damned if there isn't Mis'ess Yeobright a-standing up, I said to myself. Yes, neighbours, though I was in the temple of prayer that's what I said. 'Tis against my conscience to curse and swear in company, and I hope any woman here will overlook it. Still what I did say I did say, and 'twould be a lie if I didn't own it." "So 'twould, neighbour Fairway."
There was something subdued in Jonathan Kail's tone which had not been there in the day, and lines of concern were ploughed upon his forehead in addition to the lines of years. He continued "We've all been gallied at the dairy at what might ha' been a most terrible affliction since you and your Mis'ess so to name her now left us this a'ternoon. Perhaps you ha'nt forgot the cock's afternoon crow?"
"Why didn't you say so afore, then?" exclaimed Oak, with much disappointment. "Ah." said Matthew Moon, 'she'll wish her cake dough if so be she's over intimate with that man." "She's not over intimate with him." said Gabriel, indignantly. "She would know better." said Coggan. "Our mis'ess has too much sense under they knots of black hair to do such a mad thing."
"After that Mis'ess Yeobright came round and was quite agreeable," Fairway resumed, with an unheeding air, to show that his words were no appendage to Humphrey's, but the result of independent reflection. "Supposing they were ashamed, I don't see why they shouldn't have done it here-right," said a wide-spread woman whose stays creaked like shoes whenever she stooped or turned.
"How vas dat?" "Vell, I shall hafe de little house vat dat poor Teufel Falleix should furnish for his mis'ess this year. I shall hafe all dat for fifty tousant franc to de creditors; and my notary, Maitre Cardot, shall hafe my orders to buy de house, for de lan'lord vant de money I knew dat, but I hat lost mein head.
"Mrs d'Urberville wants the fowls as usual," she said; but perceiving that Tess did not quite understand, she explained, "Mis'ess is a old lady, and blind." "Blind!" said Tess.
Mr. Yeobright had got one pot of the bones, and was going to bring 'em home real skellington bones but 'twas ordered otherwise. You'll be relieved to hear that he gave away his pot and all, on second thoughts; and a blessed thing for ye, Mis'ess Yeobright, considering the wind o' nights." "Gave it away?" "Yes. To Miss Vye. She has a cannibal taste for such churchyard furniture seemingly."
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