Martha would remain at Yardley and take care of the old home.
Bart's banishment coming first served as a target for the fire of the gossip some days before Jane's decision had reached the ears of the villagers.
"I always knew he would come to no good end," Miss Gossaway called out to a passer-by from her eyrie; "and there's more like him if their fathers would look after 'em.

Guess sea's the best place for him." Billy Tatham, the stage-driver, did not altogether agree with the extremist.
"You hearn tell, I s'pose, of how Captain Nat handled his boy t'other night, didn't ye ?" he remarked to the passenger next to him on the front seat.

"It might be the way they did things 'board the Black Ball Line, but 'tain't human and decent, an' I told Cap'n Nat so to-day.
Shut his door in his face an' told him he'd kill him if he tried to come in, and all because he ketched him playin' cards on Sunday down on the beach.

Bart warn't no worse than the others he run with, but ye can't tell what these old sea-dogs will do when they git riled.

I guess it was the rum more'n the cards.