"His wife, she's gone the wrong way to work with him, in my opinion, but that's particular to women.

She's a-goaded of him respecting a certain party.

I don't say but what that young girl's no better than what she ought to be; look at her profession, and her a country girl, too! She must be what she oughtn't to.

But he ain't the sort o' man you can treat like that.

You can't get thorns from figs; you can't expect it from the lower orders.