Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"I warned you, and you can't say I didn't," her diatribe ran. "I
always knew he was no good, a jailbird, a hoodlum, a slugger. My
heart sunk into my boots when I heard you was runnin' with a
prizefighter. I told you so at the time. But no; you wouldn't
listen, you with your highfalutin' notions an' more pairs of
shoes than any decent woman should have. You knew better'n me.
An' I said then, to Tom, I said, 'It's all up with Saxon now.'
Them was my very words. Them that touches pitch is defiled. If
you'd only a-married Charley Long! Then the family wouldn't a-ben
disgraced. An' this is only the beginnin', mark me, only the
beginnin'. Where it'll end, God knows. He'll kill somebody yet,
that plug-ugly of yourn, an' be hanged for it. You wait an' see,
that's all, an' then you'll remember my words. As you make your
bed, so you will lay in it"