I cannot think he would use us thus, and it may be there are means of explaining what is laid to his charge.

I was led to ask Dwining, who is said to have saluted the smith while he was walking with this choice mate.

If I am to believe his words, this wench was the smith's cousin, Joan Letham.

But thou knowest that the potter carrier ever speaks one language with his visage and another with his tongue.

Now, thou, Oliver, hast too little wit--I mean, too much honesty--to belie the truth, and as Dwining hinted that thou also hadst seen her--" "I see her, Simon Glover! Will Dwining say that I saw her ?" "No, not precisely that; but he says you told him you had met the smith thus accompanied." "He lies, and I will pound him into a gallipot!" said Oliver Proudfute.
"How! Did you never tell him, then, of such a meeting ?" "What an if I did ?" said the bonnet maker.