Notwithstanding our community
of danger and her thankfulness on my behalf, however, she broke forth into
wrath and railing whenever we were alone together.
'Wat fool you were! so disobedient and obstinate; if you 'ad done wat _I_
say, then we should av been quaite safe; those persons they were tipsy, and
there is nothing so dangerous as to quarrel with tipsy persons; I would
'av brought you quaite safe--the lady she seem so nice and quaite, and we
should 'av been safe with her--there would 'av been nothing absolutely; but
instead you would scream and pooshe, and so they grow quite wild, and all
the impertinence and violence follow of course; and that a poor Bill--all
his beating and danger to his life it is cause entairely by you.'
And she spoke with more real virulence than that kind of upbraiding
generally exhibits.
'The beast!' exclaimed Mrs. Rusk, when she, I, and Mary Quince were in my
room together, 'with all her crying and praying, I'd like to know as much
as she does, maybe, about them rascals. There never was sich like about the
place, long as I remember it, till she came to Knowl, old witch! with them
unmerciful big bones of hers, and her great bald head, grinning here, and
crying there, and her nose everywhere.
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