t I . I could not cry out. t my t, and I still aircase took me do, saying, to you, Mr Bates, and, atcurn, its a tig be, not a sack of feathers
no a trunk or a piano. Not once did to une, and to beat out time of it, h his finger-ends, on my leg.
topped. Careful, nohey said.
t doook tle pus, t, I found I staggered and fell. I fell upon my . One of to take it. from it. Please, I said.
You may say please, noo teps. Look tle devil!
S to me. Noers, or Rivers? Does he?
Please, I said again. I aint Mrs Rivers. S Mrs Rivers? , Mr Bates? And I aint Nurse Spiller, I dare say. And Mr himself. Very likely.
So me, and s my ; and s say s sed me me fall; and me being just then so dazed and so weak, I fell badly.
ts for cracking my face, s on stairs, or a roof. Crack me again—s oo. ts noto me. small little ? Used to better, are you? I s Ive keep ladies maids, es. till stood, c them over?
I supposed s to strip me bare; on to my knees and ted from her.
You may call c. You aint having my dress.
ch, am I? she answered. ell!
And so a fist, and s me.
I e dodger and t I . t out of my my o my face, and lay doo getting goics, and rick for it; and next s and took t. took my garters, and tockings, and finally my hair-pins.
tood, darker-faced ting.
tticoat and sll be no business of ours. You -Mrs-Rivers? You sit in t, and steemper from a fit. Kick all you like in out your joints, congue off. Keep you quiet. e prefers t, makes our job nicer.
S, and s me. t me, and done notcake my stockings and stays. I o , and tling grew very mucer.
I could no longer , I got to my feet. trembling. I to put too fine a point on it, properly funked. I , on my knees, to to look at tself y canvas, padded rahe walls were covered in padded
canvas, too. t. t, very mucorn and stained. ttle tin pot I to piddle in. t came in green and dark, like ter in a pond.
I stood and look