God knows I am in no heart for laughing.

If we could get your father with us, it would be best; but with him or without him, I want you far away from here, my girl; for your own sake, and for mine, ay, and for your father's too, I want you far--far away from here.

I came with other thoughts; I came here as a man comes home; now it is all changed, and I have no desire nor hope but to flee--for that's the word--flee, like a bird out of the fowler's snare, from this accursed island.' She had stopped her work by this time.
'And do you think, now,' said she, 'do you think, now, I have neither eyes nor ears?
Do ye think I havenae broken my heart to have these braws (as he calls them, God forgive him!) thrown into the sea?
Do ye think I have lived with him, day in, day out, and not seen what you saw in an hour or two?
No,' she said, 'I know there's wrong in it; what wrong, I neither know nor want to know.

There was never an ill thing made better by meddling, that I could hear of.

But, my lad, you must never ask me to leave my father.