So I'll say naught more about her.

But for him as is absent, as thee hast spoken on so lightly and reproachfully, I'd have thee to know he were one of a different kind to any thee ever knew, I reckon.

If he were led away by a pretty face to slight one as was fitter for him, and who had loved him as the apple of her eye, it's him as is suffering for it, inasmuch as he's a wanderer from his home, and an outcast from wife and child.' To the surprise of all, Molly's words of reply were cut short even when they were on her lips, by Sylvia.

Pale, fire-eyed, and excited, with Philip's child on one arm, and the other stretched out, she said,-- 'Noane can tell--noane know.

No one shall speak a judgment 'twixt Philip and me.