But for a young man in the gallery, with a long stick of the vile-base in his hand, and the only clean shirt of the week on his back, and nothing but a plank of pitch to keep him, however good-looking he may be, to be looking at the daughter, and the prettiest one too, though not the best, some people think, of the gentleman that owns all the houses and the haven--presumption is the smallest word that I can find to use for it; and for her to allow it, fat--fat something in the nation." "Well, ma'am," said Mr.Swipes, whose views were loose and liberal, "it seems a little shock at first to those on trust in families.

But Dannel is a brave boy, and might fight his way to glory, and then they has the pick of the femmels up to a thousand pound a year.

You know what happened the miller's son, no further off than Upton.

And if it hadn't been for Dannel, when she was a little chit, where would proud Miss Dolly be, with her feathers and her furbelows?
Natur' is the thing I holds by, and I sees a deal of it.

And betwixt you and me and the bedpost, ma'am, whoever hath Miss Dolly will have to ride to London on this here scythe.