But I wouldn't take 'im on my back as a burgin, Mis' Deane, if I were you.

Ye're far better off by yerself with the washin' an' lace-mendin' business." Mary was silent.
"It's all very well,"-- proceeded Mrs.Twitt--"for 'im to say 'e knew yer father, but arter all _that_ mayn't be true.

The Lord knows whether 'e aint a 'scaped convick, or a man as is grown 'oary-'edded with 'is own wickedness.

An' though 'e's feeble now an' wants all ye can give 'im, the day may come when, bein' strong again, 'e'll take a knife an' slit yer throat.

Bein' a tramp like, it 'ud come easy to 'im an' not to be blamed, if we may go by what they sez in the 'a'penny noospapers.