And then if anybody does trust 'em, there's no getting at 'em to make 'em pay as there is at other folk." "I don't know that our Mr.Phineas will ever be like that, Jacob." "That's gammon, Jane.

That's the way as women gets themselves took in always.

Our Mr.Phineas! Why should our Mr.Phineas be better than anybody else ?" "He's always acted handsome, Jacob." "There was one time he could not pay his lodgings for wellnigh nine months, till his governor come down with the money.

I don't know whether that was handsome.

It knocked me about terrible, I know." "He always meant honest, Jacob." "I don't know that I care much for a man's meaning when he runs short of money.