human
If you war to wallop her, sir, into the bargain, it would be a good deed done,
gpt
Why should I wallop her for leaving my service?
human
She ain't guv' no notice,
gpt
And if I were to wallop you because you had taken it into your stupid head to leave me at a moment's notice, should I be justified in doing so?
human
There is differences,
gpt
You are stronger, you mean, and Feemy Carroll is weak. Let her go her own gait as she pleases. How am I to take upon myself to say that she is not right to go? And for the shoes and stockings, let them go with her, and the dress also, if I am supposed to have any property in it. Fancy a Landleaguer in Parliament asking an indignant question as to my detaining forcibly an unwilling female servant. Let them all go; the sooner we learn to serve ourselves the better for us. I suppose you will go too before long.
human
It's my food you'll have to save, and my wages,
gpt
Drat her imperence, said Peter, who brought in the news.
human
It's like her ways to come when she can't get a morsel of wholesome food elsewhere.
gpt
Oh! Feemy, so you've come back again, said Ada,
human
But Feemy cowered and said not a word.
gpt
What have you been doing all the time? said Edith.
human
Miss Ada and I have had to clean out all the pots and all the pans, and all the gridirons, though for the matter of that there has been very little to cook on them.
gpt
If I'm let,
human
Where are the shoes and stockings?
gpt
Of course you shall come back, shoes or no shoes. I suppose times have been too hard with you at home to think much of shoes or stockings. Since your poor cousin was shot in Galway court-house, --for Feemy was a cousin of the tribe of Carrolls,--
human
I fear it hasn't gone very well with you all.