We waited a few minutes until she became calm, and then she began to talk about a benevolent young governess who used to live in that quarter, and who had gone about doing good there, amongst "all sorts and conditions of men," especially the poorest.
"Eh," said she; "that was a good woman, if ever there was one.

Hoo teached a class o' fifty at church school here, though hoo wur a Dissenter.

An' hoo used to come to this house every Sunday neet, an' read th' Scripturs; an' th' place wur olez crammed--th' stairs an o'.

Up-groon fellows used to come an' larn fro her, just same as childer--they did for sure--great rough colliers, an' o' mak's.

Hoo used to warn 'em again drinkin', an' get 'em to promise that they wouldn't taste for sich a time.