Most of 'em does it.

But when there was a talk as you wern't to come back, and that Master George was to take the place;--why then it did seem as things was very wrong.' 'Master George might have been quite as good as I.' 'It wasn't the proper thing, squoire.

It wasn't straight.

If you hadn't never a' been, sir, or if the Lord Almighty had taken you as he did the others, God bless 'em, nobody wouldn't have had a right to say nothing.
But as you was to the fore it wouldn't have been straight, and no one wouldn't have thought it straight.' Instigated by this John Caldigate looked a good deal into the matter that day, and began to feel that, having been born Squire of Folking, he had, perhaps, no right to deal with himself otherwise.

Then various thoughts passed through his mind as to other dealings which had taken place.