'Mr Symmonds,' cried she, 'you use me very ill, and I'll bear it no longer.

Here three parts of the business is left for me to do, and the fourth left unfinished; while you do nothing but soak with the guests all day long, whereas if a spoonful of liquor were to cure me of a fever, I never touch a drop.' I now found what she would be at, and immediately poured her out a glass, which she received with a curtesy, and drinking towards my good health, 'Sir,' resumed she, 'it is not so much for the value of the liquor I am angry, but one cannot help it, when the house is going out of the windows.

If the customers or guests are to be dunned, all the burthen lies upon my back, he'd as lief eat that glass as budge after them himself.' There now above stairs, we have a young woman who has come to take up her lodgings here, and I don't believe she has got any money by her over-civility.

I am certain she is very slow of payment, and I wish she were put in mind of it.'-- 'What signifies minding her,' cried the host, 'if she be slow, she is sure.'-- 'I don't know that,' replied the wife; 'but I know that I am sure she has been here a fortnight, and we have not yet seen the cross of her money.'-- 'I suppose, my dear,' cried he, 'we shall have it all in a, lump.'-- 'In a lump!' cried the other, 'I hope we may get it any way; and that I am resolved we will this very night, or out she tramps, bag and baggage.'-- 'Consider, my dear,' cried the husband, 'she is a gentlewoman, and deserves more respect.'-- 'As for the matter of that,' returned the hostess, 'gentle or simple, out she shall pack with a sassarara.

Gentry may be good things where they take; but for my part I never saw much good of them at the sign of the Harrow.'-- Thus saying, she ran up a narrow flight of stairs, that went from the kitchen to a room over-head, and I soon perceived by the loudness of her voice, and the bitterness of her reproaches, that no money was to be had from her lodger.