He received a hearty greeting from Daniel, and a quiet one from his aunt.
'Tak' off thy pan o' milk, missus, and set on t' kettle.

Milk may do for wenches, but Philip and me is for a drop o' good Hollands and watter this cold night.

I'm a'most chilled to t' marrow wi' looking out for thee, lass, for t' mother was in a peck o' troubles about thy none coining home i' t' dayleet, and I'd to keep hearkening out on t' browhead.' This was entirely untrue, and Bell knew it to be so; but her husband did not.

He had persuaded himself now, as he had done often before, that what he had in reality done for his own pleasure or satisfaction, he had done in order to gratify some one else.
'The town was rough with a riot between the press-gang and the whaling folk; and I thought I'd best see Sylvia home.' 'Ay, ay, lad; always welcome, if it's only as an excuse for t' liquor.

But t' whalers, say'st ta?
Why, is t' whalers in?
There was none i' sight yesterday, when I were down on t' shore.