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He thinks hissen the Grand Turk, he do, since they gi'en him his uniform, and made him full keeper. A nassty, domineerin' sort, I calls him. He's allus makin' bad blood wi' the yoong fellers when he don't need. It's the way he's got wi' 'im. But I don't make no account of 'im, an' I let 'im see 't." All the tea-party grinned except Mrs. Hurd.
'A thieving set of magpies is all them Saunders cadgin 'ere and cadgin there. He spoke with fierce contempt, the tacit hatred of years leaping to sight. Bessie's bright brown eyes looked at him with sympathy. 'It was just his nassty spite, she said. 'He knew 'ee could never ha done it not what you've done out o' your wages.
Miss Barton, she ast him in class, Thursday, 'bout Ananias and Sappira. 'Johnnie, says she, 'whatever made 'em do sich a wicked thing? 'Well, I do'n' know, says he; 'it was jus' their nassty good-for-nothink, says he; 'but they was great sillies, says he. Oh! he don't mean no harm! lor' bless yer, the men is all born contrary, and they can't help themselves.
"Well, please God, the pair of us'll knock out a spell yet!" responded Mrs. Twomey, cheerfully; "for as little as I am, the fly itself wouldn't like to die!" John Brien did not question this assertion. "The 'fluenzy is very raging these times," he remarked. "'Tis a nassty, dirty disease altogether, God help us!" said Mrs. Twomey, with feeling. "It is, and very numerous," replied John Brien.
"There's some people as is real ill-natured," she said presently, in an angry voice. "Aye?" said John, looking up sharply. "What are they sayin' now?" "It's Muster Saunders. 'Ee's allus sayin' nassty things about other folks. And there'd be plenty of fault to be found with 'im, if onybody was to try. An' Sally Saunders eggs him on dreadful."
His temper, perhaps, was 'nassty, which might pull him down a little when the last account came to be made up; and it could not be said that his elder children had come to much, for all his piety. But, on the whole, Bolderfield only wished he stood as well with the powers talked about in chapel every Sunday as Isaac did.
"An' I can't say as yer looks is any credit to Frampton no, that aa can't." John, indeed, wore a sallow and pinched air, and walked lamely, with a stick. "Noa," he said peevishly; "it's a beastly place is Frampton; a damp, nassty hole as iver I saw gives yer the rheumaticks to look at it. I've 'ad a doose of a time, I 'ave, I can tell yer iver sense I went. But I'll pull up now."
David fell upon her and chastised her; but his fisticuffs probably looked more formidable than they felt, for Louie laughed provokingly all the time, and when he stopped out of breath she said exultantly, as she sprang up, holding her skirts round her ready for another flight, 'It's greened aw yur neck and yur collar luvely! Doan't yo be nassty for nothink next time! And off she ran.
His temper, perhaps, was "nassty," which might pull him down a little when the last account came to be made up; and it could not be said that his elder children had come to much, for all his piety. But, on the whole, Bolderfield only wished he stood as well with the Powers talked about in chapel every Sunday as Isaac did.
'An I can't say as yer looks is any credit to Frampton no, that aa can't. John, indeed, wore a sallow and pinched air, and walked lamely, with a stick. 'Noa, he said, peevishly; 'it's a beastly place is Frampton; a damp, nassty hole as iver I saw gives yer the rheumaticks to look at it. I've 'ad a doose of a time, I 'ave, I can tell yer iver sense I went. But I'll pull up now.
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