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172 in my own soul, or I wouldn't hev been so ready to lift thy quarrel."

"Late as it is, can we not put an end to the trouble? I will go back to Anthony, and ask him to forgive me, and try and do my duty pleasantly for the future."

"Nay, thou won't If ta turns traitor to me now, thou wilt be a mean-hearted lass. Aske may ruin me, as far as brass is concerned; but if I hev his wife, I can still snap my fingers o'er him. Nay, nay, thou must stand by me now! It would be t' cruelest blow of all if thou should leave me after I had spent t' last shilling I hev in thy quarrel."

"Is it as bad as that father?"

"It's coming to it. But I'll fight him as long as iver I can. If he is Yorkshire, so am I. I won't give in as long as I can hit back. And when he's got all my money, and ruined my business, and turned me out of my home, I can still crow over him, if he hesn't got thee."

"I do not believe Anthony wants me."

"Doesn't he? Ay, but he does! Thou art what he is fighting for. He thinks when he hes driven thee out o' thy fine home, and me to-