"The Lord forgive me for saying the like! but I hate him worse than I do the devil." "I thought you probably would," said Meldon, "and I don't wonder at it.
Any man who works the sort of way you were working when I arrived would be pretty sure to hate Simpkins." "Since ever he come to the place," said Callaghan, "there's been neither peace nor quiet in it.

There doesn't a day pass but he's up here asking why this isn't done, and what's the matter with the other thing, and whether I couldn't manage to settle up some contraption or other.

Many's the time I've said to myself it would be better for me to starve out on the bog beyond than to have the life plagued out of me listening to the way he does be talking." "I expect," said Meldon, "that he's simply trying to make you do your work, and a hard job he has of it." "Any way, it's what I'm not accustomed to; and what's more, won't stand." "You'll have to stand it for a while more, any way.

That's what I want to impress on your mind.

I can't have a word said against Mr.
Simpkins, in the presence of Miss King." "The young lady there ?" "Yes, that exact young lady.