--Said she, in a great pet, I won't be called
such names, I'll assure you. Marry come up! I see you have a spirit:
You must and shall be kept under. I'll manage such little provoking
things as you, I warrant ye! Come, come, we'll go in a'doors, and I'll
lock you up, and you shall have no shoes, nor any thing else, if this be
the case.
I did not know what to do. This was a cruel thing to me, and I blamed
myself for my free speech; for now I have given her some pretence: and O!
thought I, here I have, by my malapertness, ruined the only project I had
left.
The gardener saw this scene: but she called to him, Well, Jacob, what do
you stare at? Pray mind what you're upon. And away he walked, to
another quarter, out of sight.
Well, thought I, I must put on the dissembler a little, I see. She took
my hand roughly; Come, get up, said she, and come in a'doors!--I'll
Jezebel you, I will so!--Why, dear Mrs. Jewkes, said I.--None of your
dears, and your coaxing! said she; why not Jezebel again?--She was in a
fearful passion, I saw, and I was out of my wits. thought I, I have often
heard women blamed for their tongues; I wish mine had been shorter. But
I can't go in, said I, indeed I can't!--Why, said she, can't you? I'll
warrant I can take such a thin body as you under my arm, and carry you
in, if you won't walk.
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