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He would take any offer Swale made him in the morning . There would be neither peace nor safety for him , if Tim Bingley took it into his will to return to Hallam whenever he wanted money . At daylight Dolly Ives , an old woman who cleaned his house and cooked his meals , came . She had left the evening before at six o'clock , and if any thing was known of Bingley 's visit to Hallam , she would likely have heard of it . She was n't a pleasant old woman , and she had not a very good reputation , but her husband had worked with Laycock 's father , and he had been kind to her on several occasions when she had been in trouble . So she had `` stuck up for Bill Laycock , '' and her partisanship had become warmer from opposition . It was at best a rude kind of liking , for she never failed to tell any unkind thing she heard about him .