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And now that he was in easy circumstances, a rising man, he considered women almost as encumbrances to the world, with whom a man had better have as little to do as possible. His first impression of Alice was indistinct, and he did not care enough about her to make it distinct. 'A pretty, yea-nay kind of woman', would have been his description of her, if he had been pushed into a corner.
"I said that I hardly knew Master Allerton by sight as yet, and was in no haste to wed." "What sort of yea-nay answer was that, thou silly wench? Why didst not say No, round and full?" "Because No, wrapped in gentle words, served my turn as well, cousin." "Come now, I do remember that tone of old, soft as snow and unbendable as ice. So 't is the same Barbara I quarreled with so oft, is it?
Where am I to go out of sight of the police this wet day: without a shilling in the world too? If you'll give me some money I'll be off fast enough, and make assurance doubly sure. I'm not much afraid of Maggie. She's a little yea-nay thing, and I can always bend her round to what we want.
But you undastand that is not a woman for me to mispwonownce my 'ah's befaw NOR FOR YOU TO MAKE A BOSOM FWIEND OF WOSA STAINES." She said this with a sudden maternal solemnity and kindness that contrasted nobly and strangely with her yea-nay style, and Mrs. Staines remembered the words years after they were spoken. It so happened that after this Mrs.
Nevertheless, already you have learned that here we have no yea-nay world of evil and good.... 'No, she said, 'that I have not learned, nor never shall. 'Oh, aye, he mocked at her. 'You have learned that the Bishop of Winchester, who is on the side of your hosts of heaven, is a knave and a fool. You have learned that I, whom you have accounted a villain, am for you, and a very wise man.
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