"You've been took in and you must be forgiven."
"I didn't get--not nothing out of the necklace; and as fot the other
things, they've frightened me so that I let 'em all go for just what I
tell you. And as for Mr. Smiler, I never didn't care for him; that I
didn't. He ain't the man to touch my heart; not at all; and it was not
likely either. A plain fellow, very, Mr. Gager."
"He'll be plainer before long, my dear."
"But I've been that worrited among 'em, Mr. Gager, since first they made
their wicked prepositions, that I've been jest--I don't know how I've
been. And though my lady was not a lady as any girl could like, and did
deserve to have her things took if anybody's things ever should be took,
still, Mr. Gager, I knows I did wrong. I do know it and I'm a-repenting of
it in sackcloth and ashes; so I am. But you'll be as good as your word,
Mr. Gager?"
It must be acknowledged that Mr. Gager had bidden high for success, and
had allowed himself to be carried away by his zeal almost to the verge of
imprudence. It was essential to him that he should take Patience Crabstick
back with him to London, and that he should take her as witness and not as
a criminal.
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