Last Chapters

Explain the context of the quotes below, who says it and to whom, and anyone referred to in it:

Chapter XVI:

1. "That's no reason why you shouldn't have some," said _________, "for I can bring you slips of anything; I'm forced to cut no end of 'em when I'm gardening, and throw 'em away mostly. There's a big bed o' lavender at the Red House: the missis is very fond of it."

2. "For if us as knows so little can see a bit o' good and rights, we may be sure as there's a good and a rights bigger nor what we can know—I feel it i' my own inside as it must be so. And if you could but ha' gone on trustening ...you wouldn't ha' run away from your fellow-creaturs and been so lone."

Chapter XVII:

3. "And if it had pleased God to make you ugly, like me, so as the men wouldn't ha' run after you, we might have kept to our own family, and had nothing to do with folks as have got uneasy blood in their veins."

4. "I can do so little—have I done it all well?"

5. "Dear ________, don't ask me to do what I know is wrong: I should never be happy again. I know it's very hard for you—it's easier for me—but it's the will of Providence."

Chapter XVIII:

6. "When God Almighty wills it, our secrets are found out. I've lived with a secret on my mind, but I'll keep it from you no longer. I wouldn't have you know it by somebody else, and not by me—I wouldn't have you find it out after I'm dead. I'll tell you now. It's been "I will" and "I won't" with me all my life—I'll make sure of myself now."

Chapter XIX:

7. "For I should have no delight i' life any more if I was forced to go away from my father, and knew he was sitting at home, a-thinking of me and feeling lone."

Chapter XX:

8. "And I got you, __________, in spite of all; and yet I've been grumbling and uneasy because I hadn't something else—as if I deserved it."