"I discovered that the first time I saw her." "Oh, that's another affair; she may think of the poor old beggar what she pleases.

But it was low in her to call him bad names; it quite threw me off.

It was about a frilled petticoat that he was to have fetched from the washer-woman's; he appeared to have neglected this graceful duty.

She almost boxed his ears.

He stood there staring at her with his little blank eyes and smoothing his old hat with his coat-tail.