'Twould vex her, so it would.

I was surprised to find you talking together.

'Twas the unluckiest thing in the world that you and him should meet." "I had met Captain Cardew before, Bridget," I said coldly.

"He had rendered me a service.

I'm sure all that old trouble ought to be forgotten, and I think my grandmother is too good a Christian, and too reasonable to bear Captain Cardew enmity for something which was no fault of his." "That may be, dearie," old Bridget said, with the fond, coaxing way of our people towards us.