Have you any excuse to offer ?" "Plenty.

I was plying an honest trade, in a country where freedom is the law.

The Hillsborough Unions combined against me, and restrained my freedom, and threatened my life, ay, and attempted my life too, before to-day: and so the injustice and cruelty of men drove me to a sanctuary, me and my livelihood.

Blame the Trades, blame the public laws, blame the useless police: but you can't blame me; a man must live." "Why not set up your shop in the village?
Why wantonly desecrate a church ?" "The church was more secret, and more safe: and nobody worships in it.
The wind and the weather are allowed to destroy it; you care so little for it you let it molder; then why howl if a fellow uses it and keeps it warm ?" At this sally there was a broad rustic laugh, which, however, Mr.Raby quelled with one glance of his eye.
"Come, don't be impertinent," said he to Little.
"Then don't you provoke a fellow," cried Henry, raising his voice.
Grace clasped her hands in dismay.
Jael Dence said, in her gravest and most mellow voice, "You do forget the good Squire saved your life this very night." This was like oil on all the waters.
"Well, certainly I oughtn't to forget that," said Henry, apologetically.
Then he appealed piteously to Jael, whose power over him struck every body directly, including Grace Carden.

"Look here, you mustn't think, because I don't keep howling, I'm all right.