"Ill-conditioned, impudent vixen!" "She was provoked, miss," said Martha.
"Well; yes; yes;--and I suppose it is right that you should tell me of it.

I dare say it is part of what I ought to bear for being an old fool, and too cautious about my own flesh and blood.

I will bear it.
There.

I was wrong, and I will say that I have been justly punished.
There,--there!" How very much would Miss Stanbury's tone have been changed had she known that at that very moment Colonel Osborne was eating his breakfast at Mrs.Crocket's inn, in Nuncombe Putney!.