She's as true as steel, and proud you ought to be of her.' Proud, thought Charley, as he again muttered to himself, 'Excelsior!'-- 'But, Mr.Tudor, I won't see her put upon; that's the long and the short of it.

If you like to take her, there she is.

I don't say she's just your equal as to breeding, though she's come of decent people too; but she's good as gold.

She'll make a shilling go as far as any young woman I know; and if L100 or L150 are wanting for furniture or the like of that, why, I've that regard for her, that that shan't stand in the way.

Now, Mr.Tudor, I've spoke honest; and if you're the gentleman as I takes you to be, you'll do the same.' To do Mrs.Davis justice, it must be acknowledged that in her way she had spoken honestly.