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I've said all through she was good, and if e'er a man in Bungay said she warn't ; well, I was there and ready. 'I hope nobody has said so. 'You can't stop them women, squoire. There ain't no dropping into them. But, Lord love 'ee, she shall come and be missus of my house to-morrow, and what'll it matter her then what they say?
But he did explain that there had been threats used when Ruby refused to take the man, and that Ruby had, this day, taken herself off. 'I always thought it was settled that they were to be man and wife, said Roger. 'It was settled, squoire; and he war to have five hun'erd pound down; money as I'd saved myself. Drat the jade. 'Didn't she like him, Daniel?
'He's a coosin o' yours, squoire; and long as I've known Suffolk, I've never known nothing but good o' you and yourn. But if your baronite has been and done this! Oh, Mr Carbury! If I was to wring his neck round, you wouldn't say as how I was wrong; would ye, now? Roger could hardly answer the question.
'We've put a bit of wire on the gate, Squoire, an' fastened the latch of it up and we've put a length or two along the top of the wall, said the old man slowly 'an' then He paused. 'Then what? what about the hurdles? I expected to find them all up by now! Dodge looked at Perley.
"And yo'n win, squoire," replied the cock-master; "ey ha' been feedin' him these five weeks, so he'll be i' rare condition then, and winna fail yo. Yo may lay what yo loike upon him," he added, with a sly wink at Fogg. "You may win the thirty pounds you want," observed the latter, in a low tone to the squire. "Or, mayhap, lose it," replied Nicholas.
The girl started back, with her 'Don't ya look so now don't ye, for love's sake you be as like the ould squoire as But here a comes, she said, huddling away out of the room; 'and if you want a third, there is none but ould Harry, as I know of, that can match ye for a brent broo! As the girl muttered this exclamation, and hastened out of the room, Herries entered.
I can tell from their very walk what sort of mothers they'll be. Mr. Holt had long been known as the most judicious breeder of stock in that neighbourhood. 'But it ain't only that, squoire. 'The young'un will do well too, I hope. 'In course he will. Why not? The foals take after their dams for a time, pretty much always.
'She is a lady, Crumb began to explain, 'who do be living with Mrs Pipkin; and she is a lady as is a lady. Roger could not fully admit the truth of this assertion; but he explained that he, too, knew something of Mrs Hurtle, and that he thought it probable that what she said of Ruby might be true. 'True, squoire, said Crumb, laughing with his whole face. 'I ha' nae a doubt it's true.
D'ye think she's see'd the Baro-nite since she's been in Lon'on, Muster Carbury? 'I think she's a good girl, if you mean that. 'I'm sure she be. I don't want none to tell me that, squoire. Tho', squoire, it's better to me nor a ten pun' note to hear you say so. I allays had a leaning to you, squoire; but I'll more nor lean to you, now.
"Neaw, ey'd tak keare he didna do that, squoire," replied the hostess. "Ey towd him he'd get nowt boh ele here, an' he made free wi't wine bottle, so ey brought down t' whip jist to teach him manners." "You teach me! you ignorant and insolent hussy," cried Potts, furiously; "do you think I'm to be taught manners by an overgrown Lancashire witch like you?
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