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'Young woe their ! Jade! I'll tell you what, John She'll go out o' this into the streets;--that's what she wull I won't keep her here, no longer;--nasty, ungrateful, lying slut'

'She ain't that;--she ain't that,' said John 'She ain't that at all She's no slut I won't hear her called so;--not by her grandfather But, oh, she has ato serve a young man that way,' said the baker

'If you'll jist keep yourself to yourself, I'll be obliged to you, Mr Mixet,' said Ruby 'If you hadn't coht have been different'

'Hark at that now,' said John, looking at his friend alnation

Mr Mixet, as fully aware of his rare eloquence and of the absolute necessity there had been for its exercise if any arrangement were to be made at all, could not trust himself to words after this He put on his hat and walked out through the back kitchen into the yard declaring that his friend would find histy wall, whenever he was ready to return to Bungay As soon as Mixet was gone John looked at his sweetheart out of the corners of his eyes and ht hand as a feeler 'He's aff now, Ruby,' said John

'And you'd better be aff after hiain?'

'Never It ain't no use What's the good of les 'I'll even it to her She'll have to be out on the roads this night'

'She shall have the best bed in my house if she'll come for it,' said John, 'and the old woh her till she sends for me'

'I can find a place forhis teeth, and swearing to hiain, and eance

'And now if you please, Mr Cruo up to any rooot up froh to fly at her And he would have struck her with his stick but that he was stopped by John Crumb