It's a weary coming home to this dark place, and to find my own mother set against me.' 'Take him his tea, like a good lassie.

I'll answer for it he'll be all right.

A man takes it hardly when he comes in tired, a-thinking his wife '11 be there to cheer him up a bit, to find her off, and niver know nought of t' reason why.' 'I'm glad enough I've getten a baby,' said Sylvia, 'but for aught else I wish I'd niver been married, I do!' 'Hush thee, lass!' said Hester, rising up indignant; 'now that is a sin.

Eh! if thou only knew the lot o' some folk.

But let's talk no more on that, that cannot be helped; go, take him his tea, for it's a sad thing to think on him fasting all this time.' Hester's voice was raised by the simple fact of her change of position; and the word fasting caught Mrs.Robson's ear, as she sate at her knitting by the chimney-corner.
'Fasting?
he said thou didn't care if he were full or fasting.
Lassie! it's not right in thee, I say; go, take him his tea at once.' Sylvia rose, and gave up the baby, which she had been suckling, to Nancy, who having done her washing, had come for her charge, to put it to bed.