I never wanted to come into this house.

I never wanted to see no one." Blanca could see his lips and eyelids quivering in a way strangely out of keeping with his general stolidity.
"My wife has told you tales of me, I suppose.

She's told you I knock her about, I daresay.

I don't care what she tells you or any o' the people that she works for.

But this I'll say: I never touched her but she touched me first.