She said shortly and gravely,-- 'Sylvia's none so set upo' matrimony; she's content to bide wi' me and her father.

Let a be such talking, it's not i' my way.' Molly was a little subdued; but still her elation at the prospect of being so well married kept cropping out of all the other subjects which were introduced; and when she went away, Mrs.Robson broke out in an unwonted strain of depreciation.
'That's the way wi' some lasses.

They're like a cock on a dunghill, when they've teased a silly chap into wedding 'em.

It's cock-a-doodle-do, I've cotched a husband, cock-a-doodle-doo, wi' 'em.

I've no patience wi' such like; I beg, Sylvie, thou'lt not get too thick wi' Molly.