She do
go on about God's will: seems to me 'tis His will the world should be
peopled by body and beast--which they are both His creatures--and, by the
same toaken, if they don't marry they does wus. Certainly whilst a young
man bides at home, it behoves him to be dutiful; but that ain't to say he
_is_ to bide at home for ever. Master Alfred's time is come to leave we,
and be master in a house of his own, as his father done before him, which
he forgets that now; he is grown to man's estate, and got his mother's
money, and no more bound to our master than I be." She said, too, that
"parting blights more quarrels than it breeds:" and she constantly
invited Peggy to speak up, and gainsay her. But Peggy was a young woman
with white eyelashes, and given to looking down, and not to speaking up:
she was always watching Mr. Hardie in company, like a cat cream; and
hovering about him when alone. Betty went so far as to accuse her of
colloguing with him against Alfred, and of "setting her cap at master,"
which accusation elicited no direct reply, but stinging innuendoes hours
after.
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