'Be gude to us! Is _he_ your servant ?' 'I am sorry, ma'am, he meets with your disapproval.' 'Na, I never said that.

But he's young.

He'll be a great breaker, I'm thinkin'.

Ay! he'll be a great responsibeelity to ye, like.

Does he attend to his releegion ?' 'Yes, m'm,' returned Rowley, with admirable promptitude, and, immediately closing his eyes, as if from habit, repeated the following distich with more celerity than fervour:-- 'Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Bless the bed that I lie on!' 'Nhm!' said the lady, and maintained an awful silence.
'Well, ma'am,' said I, 'it seems we are never to hear the beginning of your terms, let alone the end of them.