Their bluntness does not proceed from thickness, as in the south of England, but from a surety of their own worth, and inferiority to no one.

And to deal with them rightly, this must be entered into.
Sally o' Will o' the Wallhead bobbed her solid and black curly head, with a clout like a jelly on the poll of it, to the owner of their land, and a lady of high birth; but she vouchsafed no courtesy, neither did Mistress Yordas expect one.

But the active and self-contained woman set a chair in the low dark room, which was their best, and stood waiting to be spoken to.
"Sally," said the lady, who also possessed the Yorkshire gift of going to the point, "you had a man ten years ago; you behaved badly to him, and he went into the Indian Company." "A' deed," replied the maiden, without any blush, because she had been in the right throughout; "and noo a' hath coom in a better moind." "And you have come to know your own mind about him.

You have been steadfast to him for ten years.

He has saved up some money, and is come back to marry you." "I heed nane o' the brass.