Ef thou'st children they shalt go to school too.

Oi don't want to do more for Polly nor oi'd do for moi own." "I ha' no objection, Luke.

I remembers your sister, how pretty and quiet she wor; and thou shalt do what you likest wi' Polly, wi'out no grumble from me." Eliza Marner kept the promise she had made before marriage faithfully.
If she ever felt in her heart any jealousy as she saw Polly growing up a pretty bright little maiden, as different to the usual child product of Varley as could well be, she was wise enough never to express her thoughts, and behaved with motherly kindness to her in the evening hours spent at home.

She would perhaps have felt the task a harder one had her own elder children been girls; but three boys came first, and a girl was not born until she had been married eleven years.

Polly, who was now fourteen, had just come home from her schooling at Marsden for good, and was about to go out into service there.