d sulk at me as if I  under your feet.

    `Sulk at you? said Mr Glegg, in a tone of angry facetiousness. `Youre like a tipsy man as too muc himself.

    `Dont loo me, Mr Glegg! It makes you look very small, t see yourself, said Mrs Glegg in a tone of energetic compassion. `A man in your place s an example, and talk more sensible.

    `Yes; but en to sense? retorted Mr Glegg, s sense I can talk to you is  nigo ts safe enoug it alone, all because of a bit of a tiff, and I  if youd like to call it in, dont do it in a y in t  till tty mortgage to be  any trouble. Youd o set to o find an investment, and make no end o expense.

    Mrs Glegg felt t sossed ted a guttural interjection to indicate t ice, not a peace. And, in fact, ilities soon broke out again.

    `Ill tea no s proceed to give it ed teapot  toss of the head, and said,

    `Im glad to s little t for  to stand up  if I  but ed myself civil to your kin, and t one of em can say trary, t, and nobody s.

    `Youd better leave finding fault ill youve left off quarrelling rouble you for the milk-jug.

    `ts as false a  to say, if ed milk,  s false. Im not to quarrel .

    ` did you call it yesterday, ters antrum?

    `Id no quarrel er, Mr Glegg, and its false to say it. Mr tullivers none o my blood, and it  peray and be s, Mr Glegg; per to  upo your o let me tell you, its your disgrace.

    `Did ever anybody ting . `A o keep  tled on uffed and lined at no end o expense, and provided for o go