And what a pretty smile Janet always had! Poor thing, she keeps that now for all her old friends.

I never see her but she has something pretty to say to me--living in the same street, you know, I can't help seeing her often, though I've never been to the house since Dempster broke out on me in one of his drunken fits.

She comes to me sometimes, poor thing, looking so strange, anybody passing her in the street may see plain enough what's the matter; but she's always got some little good-natured plan in her head for all that.

Only last night I met her, I saw five yards off she wasn't fit to be out; but she had a basin in her hand, full of something she was carrying to Sally Martin, the deformed girl that's in a consumption.' 'But she is just as bitter against Mr.Tryan as her husband is, I understand,' said Rebecca.

'Her heart is very much set against the truth, for I understand she bought Mr.Tryan's sermons on purpose to ridicule them to Mrs.Crewe.
'Well, poor thing,' said Mrs.Pettifer, 'you know she stands up for everything her husband says and does.