I know he will! I know he will! He worships the ground as she walks on, an' if it hadn't been for that, she'd never have given him the trouble as she is doin'.

It 'ud a been better for her if she'd had a father like mine, as was a hard, careless man.

I don't wish to say no 'arm of him as is dead an' buried, an' my own father too, but he was a hard father to us, an' as long as he lived we dursn't say not a word as he didn't like.

He'd a killed me if I'd gone on like Clara.

It was a good thing as he was gone, before--' 'Don't, don't speak of that,' interposed Kirkwood, with kindly firmness.