It is some trouble about the English estates, I believe, that vexes him ?" "Faix, then, ma'am, I don't just know what it is that ails him, unless it be just that he has too much money for to know what to do wid it.

That'd be the sore vexation to me, I know." "Well; ah, yes; I suppose I shall see Mrs.Jones to-morrow, or at latest the day after," said Mrs.Townsend, resolving to pique the man by making him understand that she could easily learn all that she wished to learn from the woman: "a great comfort Mrs.Jones must be to her ladyship." "Oh yes, ma'am; 'deed an' she is," said Richard; "'specially in the matter of puddins and pies, and such like." He was not going to admit Mrs.Jones's superiority, seeing that he had lived in the family long before his present mistress's marriage.
"And in a great many other things too, Richard.

She's quite a confidential servant.

That's because she's a Protestant, you know." Now of all men, women, and creatures living, Richard the coachman of Castle Richmond was the most good tempered.

No amount of anger or scolding, no professional misfortune--such as the falling down of his horse upon the ice, no hardship--such as three hours' perpetual rain when he was upon the box--would make him cross.