I'd ha' married en just as she did, and if he'd said two words to me about not telling him beforehand anything whatsomdever about my first chap that I hadn't chose to tell, I'd ha' knocked him down wi' the rolling-pin-a scram little feller like he!
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
Now scram out of here!
"Hoofbeats on the Turnpike"
Mildred A. Wirt