text: " "Why--to be sure sir--but vows be vows--love's love--and to tell truth sir " (the Welsh blood of the Cardy peasant was now up ) "if any foreign half Welsh half wild Indian sort of gentleman had sent his fine letters asking my sweetheart's friends to turn _me_ off in my courting days and prepare my wench to be his lady instead of my wife--I'd have--I'd have"-- "_What_ would you have done?" asked the other laughing heartily