I've kept him here all day for pity's sake, and I've given him broth and physic, and Liz has gone to try if any one will take him in (here's my pretty in the bed--her child, but I call it mine); but I can't keep him long, for if my husband was to come home and find him here, he'd be rough in putting him out and might do him a hurt. 
"I've kept him here all day for pity's sake, and I've given him broth and medicine, and Liz has gone to see if anyone will take him in; but I can't keep him long, for if my husband was to come home and find him here, he'd be rough in putting him out. 