Maria was so much ashamed, that she could not move, but hung down her head, and the boy (who had a mind to make her save him the trouble of getting off from his ass) continued to talk to her in the polite manner in which he had begun: "Why, you little dirty thing! open the gate I say--if you do not, I will tell the cook of you, and she will tell Madam, and I shall get you turned out of the house."