How have I been conducting of myself?
Why, I've been drunk for three days; and I'da been drunk four if I'da had the money.

Don't I never mean for to go to church?
No, I don't never mean for to go to church.

I shouldn't be expected there, if I did; the beadle's too gen-teel for me.

And how did my wife get that black eye?
Why, I give it her; and if she says I didn't, she's a lie!" He had pulled his pipe out of his mouth to say all this, and he now turned over on his other side and smoked again.

Mrs.Pardiggle, who had been regarding him through her spectacles with a forcible composure, calculated, I could not help thinking, to increase his antagonism, pulled out a good book as if it were a constable's staff and took the whole family into custody.