Alice was trying to bring down her pride to say something, which she could not with all her efforts.
'Maybe yo'll speak a word for him, mother,' said Philip, annoyed at her silence.
'I'll do no such thing.

Marriages are best made wi'out melling.

How do I know but what she likes some one better ?' 'Our Hester's not th' lass to think on a young man unless he's been a-wooing on her.

And yo' know, mother, as well as I do--and Coulson does too--she's niver given any one a chance to woo her; living half her time here, and t' other half in t' shop, and niver speaking to no one by t' way.' 'I wish thou wouldn't come here troubling me on a Sabbath day wi' thy vanity and thy worldly talk.

I'd liefer by far be i' that world wheere there's neither marrying nor giving in marriage, for it's all a moithering mess here.' She turned to the closed Bible lying on the dresser, and opened it with a bang.