human
Oh, if you please, sir--oh, if you please, sir! she exclaimed with both hands up, and making the most of her shawl fringe,
gpt
My dear, said Cripps in a fatherly tone, and with less contemporary feeling than Mary might wish to inspire him with--
human
Oh, Master Cripps, now! cried Mary Hookham,
gpt
Mary, if you get up I shall get up also, and go away. We are both enjoying the hospitality of our good friend, Master Cripps. Now, Mary, by no means hurry yourself; but tell me at your leisure why you came, and what your news is.
human
Silk stockings, forsooth! cried Master Cripps, being vexed at this break of the evening.
gpt
Why, my grandmother had a whole pair of they! I belave I could find 'em now, I do! Silk stockings, to break up one's comfort for! Not but what I be glad to see you. Mary, my dear, I drink your good health, touching spoons in lack of lips.
human
Oh, Mr. Cripps, you are so funny! And you do make me fell things in such a way! Bless me, if I haven't dropped my comb! Oh, I am so shocked to trouble you! Natteral hair are so provoking, compared to what most people wears now-a-days. But about what I come for--oh, your Worship, stockings is not what I ought to speak of, except in the ear of females.
gpt
Stockings are a very good subject, Mary; particularly if they are silk ones.
human
Lor, sir! Now, I never thought of that! To be sure, that makes all the difference! Well then, your Worship must know all, and Master Cripps, and Miss Esther, too. It seemeth that Mrs. Fermitage, master's own sister, you know, sir, have never been comfortable in her mind about her behaviour when the 'quest was held. Things lay on her nerves at that time so, that off and on she hardly seemed to know where she was, or how dooty lay to her. Not that she is at all selfish, if you please to understand me--no more selfish than I myself be, or any one of us here present. But ladies requires allowance; and it makes me have a pain to think of it. You could not expect her--could you now?--to go through it, as if she was a man; or rather, I should say, a gentleman.
gpt
Of course we could not,
human
However, she did go through it, said Mary,
gpt
With a wine-glass of brandy, I did hear tell,
human
No, no; that was a shocking story. It makes me ashamed of the place as we live in whenever I heer such scandalies!
gpt
Miss Mary, my dear, I beg your pardon. Lord knows I only say what I heers! Take a little drop, Miss, and go on.
human
It makes one afeared to touch a drop of most hinnocent mixture as ever was, continued poor Mary, after one good gulp;
gpt
I don't hold much with that there eddication, cried the Carrier rather gloomily.
human
A may suit some people, but not many. They puts it on 'em all alike wi'out trial of constitootion. Some goes better for it; but most volk worse.