Now and then, when they were drunk, I've got food, good food to him.

But not often, for he was their livelihood, and however drunk they was, they kept an eye on him; mostly he's locked up in a bedroom.
I wrote to you, sir, three times, and waited and waited for answers till I was sick at heart; and things was getting worse and worse.

I couldn't have stood it any longer; I was just going to steal him and carry him off somewhere where I could look after him without no one interfering.

But I thought I'd see you, and tell you about it first.
And now, sir, if you'd let me have charge of him"-- her eyes fairly blazed with eagerness--"I'd look after him properly--I would, indeed.
And I shouldn't want no two pounds a week--why, five shillings, five shillings would be ample, sir.

I'm a capable woman, and I can get as much charring as ever I can do." "Of course, you shall have charge of him," said Sir Tancred.