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The interruption came from Constance, who had entered the kitchen to give an order. Judith looked up. "I'm in a peck of trouble, Miss Constance. And the worst is, I don't know whether to tell about it, or to keep it in. He'd not like it to get to the missis's ears, I know: but then, you see, perhaps I ought to tell her for his sake." Constance smiled. "Would you like to tell me, instead of mamma?
Wot with 'is foolishness and his missis's temper, I see I 'ad made a mess of it. He told me she had 'ardly spoke a word to 'im for two days, and when I said being a married man myself that it might ha' been worse, 'e said I didn't know wot I was talking about. I did a bit o' thinking arter he 'ad gorn aboard agin.
'Then they say a passill o' lies, an' you ought to be ashamed to go an' tell 'em o'er again. Do you think as the master, as has got a wife like the missis, 'ud go running arter a stuck-up piece o' goods like that Countess, as isn't fit to black the missis's shoes? I'm none so fond o' the master, but I know better on him nor that. 'Well, I didn't b'lieve it, said Mr. Tomms, humbly.
"Master Charles is missis's brother, mum. I've got no brother, mum never had no brother. Only one son, who's in the police, mum, thank you. And law bless me, I was going to forget! If you please, mum, missis says, if you are quite rested, she will pay her duty to you, mum." "Oh, indeed," says the lady, rather stiffly; and, taking this for an acceptance of her mistress's visit, Hannah retires.
From having a clean, godly, modest countenance, becoming his professions, Dave now wore a sour, evil look; his eyes were blood-shotten, and his straight, manly shoulders and chest, which had once exacted Samson's admiration and envy, were stooped to conform with a cough he ever and anon made from deep in his frame. "Dave," said Samson, "your missis's modder wants you, boy, to drive her to Vienny.
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