Thank you, madam! Heaven knows I thank you! but as long as I have health and these two hands, I'll take care of her who took care of me before I could take care of myself.
LADY GOODBODY.
You are a good young man, I see, and I have a great mind to take care brought you both. She has brought you up soberly, I hope, and taught you to read your Bible.
WILL.
O Lord, madam! old Grizel can't read a word herself, but many a time she desires me to be good—and so I will: hang me if I don't read the Bible from beginning to end, hard names and altogether!
LADY GOODBODY.
Come into the parlour with me: you must tell me more of this story of Mr. Worshipton and my niece.
Re-enterMiss Martinwith the drops.
MISS MARTIN.
I sought them every where, and thought I should never———