Not that I don't thank him for all favours,--he be a good gentleman if let alone; but he says he won't come near us till Lenny goes and axes pardin.
Pardin for what, I should like to know?
Poor lamb! I wish you could ha' seen his nose, sir,--as big as your two fists.

Ax pardin! if the squire had had such a nose as that, I don't think it's pardin he'd been ha' axing.

But I let the passion get the better of me,--I humbly beg you'll excuse it, sir.

I'm no schollard, as poor Mark was, and Lenny would have been, if the Lord had not visited us otherways.

Therefore just get the squire to let me go as soon as may be; and as for the bit o' hay and what's on the grounds and orchard, the new comer will no doubt settle that." The steward, finding no eloquence of his could induce the widow to relinquish her resolution, took her message to the squire.