"And for her to have the impudence to dress herself like one of us honest girls!" said an awkward, ill-looking farm-wench.
"I'm sure," rejoined another female, with her mock-modest air, "one might have thought she would go to heaven, spite of priest or confession!"
"Why, she had the assurance even to attend mass!"
"No! Did she? Why did she not join in the communion afterwards then, I should like to know?"
"And then she must play the young lady, and hold up her head as high as our betters!"
"As though we were not good company enough for her!"
"However, every dog has his day!"
"Oh, I'll make you find your tongue, and tell who it was took my husband's life!" vociferated the enraged widow, breaking out into a fresh storm, now she felt her party so strong. "You all belong to one gang; an
