Nevertheless we could not see how our want of faith could have made that noise, especially at night time, notwithstanding which we believed it, and hoped to do a little better.
And so we all came home from church; and most of the people dined with us, as they always do on Sundays, because of the distance to go home, with only words inside them.

The parson, who always sat next to mother, was afraid that he might have vexed us, and would not have the best piece of meat, according to his custom.

But soon we put him at his ease, and showed him we were proud of him; and then he made no more to do, but accepted the best of the sirloin..