And I'll tell you why.

It strikes me--I may be wrong--but it strikes me it concerns me and my husband and my household, which some folks are ever ready to interfere with.

I'll take myself off now; and I would recommend you, as a parting warning, to denounce Pike to the police for an attempt at housebreaking, before you're both murdered in your bed.

That'll be the end on't." She went away, and Clerk Gum wished he could denounce _her_ to the police.

Mirrable laughed again; and Mrs.Gum, cowardly and timid, fell back in her chair as one seized with ague.
Beyond giving an occasional dole to Mrs.Jones for her children--and to tell the truth, she clothed them all, or they would have gone in rags--Mirrable had shaken her cousin off long ago: which of course did not tend to soothe the naturally jealous spirit of Mrs.Jones.