“Will you listen to me, or not?”
“Well.”
“You’ll listen?”
“Yes.”
“Know then, that I wanted to do you kindness.”
“Humph!”
“Hold jaw! I taught Jacobina all she knows.”
“More’s the pity!”
“Hold jaw! I taught her to respect her friends,—never to commit herself in doors—never to steal at home—never to fly at home—never to scratch at home—to kill mice and rats—to bring all she catches to her master—to do what he tells her—and to defend his house as well as a mastiff: and this invaluable creature I was going to lend you:—won’t now, d—d if I do!”
“Humph.”