I never _did_ eat between meals, and I'm not going to begin.

Not but what I hate that nonsense of having your dinner at half-past one, when you might have it at one.

You was never brought up in that way, Bessy." "Why, Jane, what can I do?
Mr.Tulliver doesn't like his dinner before two o'clock, but I put it half an hour earlier because o' you." "Yes, yes, I know how it is with husbands,--they're for putting everything off; they'll put the dinner off till after tea, if they've got wives as are weak enough to give in to such work; but it's a pity for you, Bessy, as you haven't got more strength o' mind.

It'll be well if your children don't suffer for it.

And I hope you've not gone and got a great dinner for us,--going to expense for your sisters, as 'ud sooner eat a crust o' dry bread nor help to ruin you with extravagance.