nd need never come upstairs, so as to know who is in the house.’
‘As you please. As Dixon pleases. But, Margaret, don’t get to use these horrid Milton words. “Slack of work:” it is a provincialism. What will your aunt Shaw say, if she hears you use it on her return?’
‘Oh, mamma! don’t try and make a bugbear of aunt Shaw’ said Margaret, laughing. ‘Edith picked up all sorts of military slang from Captain Lennox, and aunt Shaw never took any notice of it.’
‘But yours is factory slang.’
‘And if I live in a factory town, I must speak factory language when I want it. Why, mamma, I could astonish you with a great Maillot Italie Pas CHer many words you never heard in your life. I don’t believe you know Halpa Moncler Untuvatakki Miehet what a knobstick is.’
‘Not I, child. I only know it has a very vulgar sound and I don’t want to hear you using Maillot Islande Pas CHer it.’
‘Very well, dearest mother, I won’t. Only I shall Ostaa Halpa Nike Air Max 90 Sneakerboot Naisten have to use a whole explanatory sentence instead.’
‘I don’t like this Milton,’ said Mrs. Hale. ‘Edith is right enough in saying it’s the smoke that has made me so ill.’
Margaret started up as her Protège Tibias Pas CHer mother said this. Her father had just entered the room, and she was Maillot Écosse Pas CHer most Halpa Lapset Cg Expedition Parka anxious that the faint impression she had seen on his mind that the Milton air had injured her mother’s health, should not be deepened — should not receive any Maillot Guadalajara Pas CHer confirmation. She could not tell whether he had heard what Mrs. Hale had said or not; but she began speaking hurriedly of other things, unaware that Mr. Thornton was following him.
‘Mamma is accusing me of having picked up a great deal of vulgarity since we came to Milton.’
The ‘vulgarity’ Margaret spoke of, referred purely to the use of local words, and the expression arose out of the conversation they had just been holding. But Mr. Thornton’s brow darkened; and Margaret suddenly felt how her speech might be misunderstood by him; so, in the natural sweet desire to avoid giving unnecessary pain, she forced herself to go forwards with a little Halpa Naiset Down Takki greeting, and continuelinks:
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