A nuisance! my Dick a nuisance! O Lord a' mercy!
DICK.
Never fear, girl; I'm a free-born Englishman, and I knows the laws well enough: and says I, "No more a fellor than yourself; I'm an honest man, following an honest calling, and I don't care that for you nor your lord neither; and I'll sing when I please, and I'll sing what I please, and I'll sing as loud as I please; I will, by jingo!" and so he lifts me up his cane, and I says quite cool, "This house is my castle; and if you don't take yourself out of that in a jiffey, why, I'll give your laced jacket such a dusting as it never had before in its life—I will."
MARGERY.
O, Dick! you've a spirit of your own, I warrant. Well, and then?
DICK.
Oh, I promise you he was off in the twinkling of a bed-post, and I've heard no more of him; but I was determined to wake you this morning with a thundering song; just to show 'em I didn't care for 'em—ha! ha! ha!
MARGERY.
Oh, ho! that was the reason, then, that you bawled so in my ear, and frightened me out of my sleep—was it? Oh, well, I forgive you; but bless me! I stand chattering here, and it's twelve o'clock, as I live! I must go to market—(putting on her shawl and bonnet.) What would you like to have for dinner, Dick, love? a nice rasher of bacon, by way of a relish?