Dang me if 'ee baint bonnier than ever." "Don't 'ee talk silly, Giles Topham.

Keep your nonsense for Hester Roberts." "Hester Roberts! What be that flirty hussy to I ?" retorted Giles indignantly.
"You know best about that, Giles.

What be 'ee to me?
That's more to the purpose I'm thinking." "I be a lot to 'ee Hannah.

Out wi' the truth now, an' tell me if I baint." Lavinia was beginning to feel herself superfluous in the midst of this rustic billing and cooing, and was moving a few steps off when Hannah having whispered a few words to Giles which might have been a reproof or the reverse beckoned to her, and without further ado told her old sweetheart what she wanted.
"I'd a sight sooner take 'ee Hannah--meanin' no offence to 'ee miss--but if it can't be, why----" "Of course it can't, you booby.

You know that as well as I do." "Aye.