[Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot]@TWC D-Link bookScenes of Clerical Life CHAPTER 8 7/25
Now Sally's got th' heater in the fire, we may's well hev th' urn in, though he doesn't come. I niver see'd the like o' you, Mr.Jerome, for axin' people an' givin' me the trouble o' gettin' things down an' hevin' crumpets made, an' after all they don't come.
I shall hev to wash every one o' these tea-things myself, for there's no trustin' Sally--she'd break a fortin i' crockery i' no time!' 'But why will you give yourself sich trouble, Susan? Our everyday tea-things would ha' done as well for Mr.Tryan, an' they're a deal convenenter to hold.' 'Yes, that's just your way, Mr.Jerome, you're al'ys a-findin' faut wi' my chany, because I bought it myself afore I was married.
But let me tell you, I knowed how to choose chany if I didn't know how to choose a husband.
An' where's Lizzie? You've niver left her i' the garden by herself, with her white frock on an' clean stockins ?' 'Be easy, my dear Susan, be easy; Lizzie's come in wi' Sally.
She's hevin' her pinafore took off, I'll be bound.
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