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46 evident disapproval taught her no restraint, and her husband's amiability nettled and irritated her. At length Burley rose impatiently and said, "Aske, I'll be obliged to thee if thou wilt order my gig. I'd better be going, I'm sure."

Left for a few minutes with his daughter, he turned to her and asked, sternly, "Whatever is t' matter wi' thee? Thou hast behaved thysen varry badly to-night. Thou niver acted like this at Burley, and if thou had, I would have put an end to it varry soon, thou may be sure o' that."

"Nobody ordered me about at Burley. I did just what I wanted to do. You never quarreled with me, father."

"I'm varry sure it wasn't thy husband as was quarrelsome to-night. Far from it He was patient beyond iverything. A better man to bear wi' a cross, unreasonable, provoking woman, I niver saw! Niver!"

"You know nothing about him, father. Patient! Why, he has the angry word before the angry thought, and as for being quarrelsome, sooner than want a reason for a dispute, Anthony would quarrel with Aske, and Aske with Anthony."