Braddon, Mary Elizabeth: Vixen, Volume II. V1. 15 Nov 2009
 

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1837 – 4 February 1915) was a British Victorian era popular novelist. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret.

Excerpt
For the rest of the way Violet walked with Mrs. Scobel, and at the garden-gate of the Vicarage Roderick Vawdrey wished them both good-night, and tramped off, with his basket on his back and his rod on his shoulder, for the long walk to Briarwood.
Here the children separated, and ran off to their scattered homes, dropping grateful bob-curtsies to the last—“louting,” as they called it in their Forest dialect.
“You must come in and have some tea, Violet,” said Mrs. Scobel. “You must be very tired.”