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During the latter part of this speech, Mrs Poyser had been reaching down the tea-things from the shelves, and was on her way towards the pantry for the loaf (followed close by Totty, who hadof the tea-cups), when Hetty ca the her hands at the back of her head

"Molly," she said, rather languidly, "just run out and get me a bunch of dock-leaves: the butter's ready to pack up now"

"D' you hear what's happened, Hetty?" said her aunt

"No; how should I hear anything?" was the answer, in a pettish tone

"Not as you'd care much, I daresay, if you did hear; for you're too feather-headed to mind if everybody was dead, so as you could stay upstairs a-dressing yourself for two hours by the clock But anybody besides yourself 'udto them as think a deal more of you than you deserve But Adaht be drownded for what you'd care--you'd be perking at the glass the nexther ar that her aunt was as usual exaggerating with a didactic purpose

"No, my dear, no," said Dinah kindly, for Mrs Poyser had passed on to the pantry without deigning more precise information "Not Adam Adaht in the Willow Brook Mr Irwine has just toldserious, but not deeply affected; and as Molly now entered with the dock-leaves, she took the further questions