'Times is changed, is they, mim!' cried Miggs, bridling; 'you can spare
me now, can you? You can keep 'em down without me? You're not in wants
of any one to scold, or throw the blame upon, no longer, an't you, mim?
I'm glad to find you've grown so independent. I wish you joy, I'm sure!'
With that she dropped a curtsey, and keeping her head erect, her ear
towards Mrs Varden, and her eye on the rest of the company, as she
alluded to them in her remarks, proceeded:
'I'm quite delighted, I'm sure, to find sich independency, feeling sorry
though, at the same time, mim, that you should have been forced into
submissions when you couldn't help yourself--he he he! It must be great
vexations, 'specially considering how ill you always spoke of Mr Joe--to
have him for a son-in-law at last; and I wonder Miss Dolly can put
up with him, either, after being off and on for so many years with a
coachmaker. But I HAVE heerd say, that the coachmaker thought twice
about it--he he he!--and that he told a young man as was a frind of his,
that he hoped he knowed better than to be drawed into that; though she
and all the family DID pull uncommon strong!'
Here she paused for a reply, and receiving none, went on as before.
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