Excerpt from In Bad Hands, Vol. 2 of 3: And Other Tales It's not as if you haven't been sensibly brought up, ' said Luke, gravely, or were one of those wenches in the village. It's just the sort 0' thing I can't abide in man or woman, Peggy; hardly in a child. I can't abide it.' Then don't abide it, ' said Peggy, pertly; 'that doesn't matter to anybody, I suppose.' I should hope it would matter to you, ' he said tenderly, now, and if it don't matter what I say or think, why, you're not my Peggy, but some other lass who's come out of My Lady's Chapel instead of yourself.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.