The name of the king--God bless him!--seems to have no weight among them." "And you can not get at them, Sir, by any dint of money, or even by living in the midst of them.

The only way to do it is by kin of blood, or marriage.

And that is how I come to know more about them than almost any body else outside.

My master can scarcely win a word of them even, kind as he is, and well-spoken; and neither might I, though my tongue was tenfold, if it were not for Joan Cockscroft.

But being Joan's cousin, I am like one of themselves." "Cockscroft! Cockscroft?
I have heard that name.