`` What do you know about Vendale ? '' shouted Grimes ; but he left off beating Tom . `` I know about Vendale , and about you , too . I know , for instance , what happened in Aldermire Copse , by night , two years ago come Martinmas . '' `` You do ? '' shouted Grimes ; and leaving Tom , he climbed up over the wall , and faced the woman . Tom thought he was going to strike her ; but she looked him too full and fierce in the face for that . `` Yes ; I was there , '' said the Irishwoman quietly . `` You are no Irishwoman , by your speech , '' said Grimes , after many bad words . `` Never mind who I am . I saw what I saw ; and if you strike that boy again , I can tell what I know . '' Grimes seemed quite cowed , and got on his donkey without another word . `` Stop ! '' said the Irishwoman . `` I have one more word for you both ; for you will both see me again before all is over . Those that wish to be clean , clean they will be ; and those that wish to be foul , foul they will be . Remember . '' And she turned away , and through a gate into the meadow . Grimes stood still a moment , like a man who had been stunned . Then he rushed after her , shouting , `` You come back . ''
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