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[lemma=afore]
She used to keep bank notes there , afore she vos married , Samivel . He fiddled with the door handle and tugged on the lock , reaffirming that it was still locked , as it was when he tried the same solution ten seconds afore , then his gun-hand went twitchy near his ever-ready Colt , as if he was fixing to draw . " I 'm come to see if as how you can pay your rent , because as how we hear Captain Montable is gone away , and it 's fifty to one if he b'ant killed afore he comes back again ; an then , Miss , or Ma'am , or whatever you may be , as I was saying to my husband , where are we to look for our money . This we knew , but what we did n't know , and it took a while afore we coaxed it from Mick , was that he was in arrears and Miss Dolly was threatening foreclosure iffen he did n't pay up by sundown this very day . If ever a woman was troubled with a ruffinly creetur , that takes a pride and a pleasure in disgracing his wife on every possible occasion afore strangers , I am that woman !