However, he'll be good against rattening; and you have lost a fortnight, and there are a good many orders.

Give me a good day's work, and we won't quarrel over the watchman." He then inquired, rather nervously, whether there was anything more.
"No, sir: we are agreed.

And I'll give you good work, and full time." The die was cast, and now he must go home and face his mother.

For the first time this many years he was half afraid to go near her.

He dreaded remonstrances and tears: tears that he could not dry; remonstrances that would worry him, but could not shake him.
This young man, who had just screwed his physical courage up to defy the redoubtable Unions had a fit of moral cowardice, and was so reluctant to encounter the gentlest woman in England, that he dined at a chop-house, and then sauntered into a music hall, and did not get home till past ten, meaning to say a few kind, hurried words, then yawn, and slip to bed.
But, meantime, Mrs.Little's mind had not been idle.