What do you want with it open?
You'll have that wild man darting in upon you some morning.

How will you like that ?" "I'm not afeard of him," was the answer, as Rebecca got up from her knees.

"He couldn't eat me." "But you know how timid your mistress is," returned the clerk, in a voice of extreme anger.

"How dare you, girl, be insolent ?" He shut the door as he spoke--one that opened from the kitchen to the back garden--and bolted it.

Washing his hands, and drying them with a round towel, he went upstairs, and found Mrs.Gum--as he had now and then found her of late--in a fit of prostration.