But if you go, I shall go too; though Missis is so ready to get shut o' me." "It was for your own good, you know." "You always said it was for a girl's good to stop in one place; and if you think I'm going to another.

I aren't that's all." Rude as the form of the speech was--almost the first rude speech that Elizabeth had ever made to Miss Hilary, and which, under other circumstances she would have felt bound severely to reprove--the mistress passed it over.

That which lay beneath it, the sharpness of wounded love, touched her heart.

She felt that, for all the girl's rough manner, it would have been hard to go into her London kitchen and meet a strange London face, instead of that fond homely one of Elizabeth Hand's.
Still, she thought it right to explain to her that London life might have many difficulties, that; for the present at least, her wages could not be raised, and the family might at first be in even more straitened circumstances than they were at Stowbury.
"Only at first, though, for I hope to find plenty of pupils, and by-and-by our nephew will get into practice." "Is it on account of him you're going, Miss Hilary ?" "Chiefly." Elizabeth gave a grunt which said as plainly as words could say, "I thought so;" and relapsed into what she, no doubt, believed to be virtuous indignation, but which, as it was testified against the wrong parties, was open to the less favorable interpretation of ill humor--a small injustice not uncommon with us all.
I do not pretend to paint this young woman as a perfect character.
She had her fierce dislikes as well as her strong fidelities; her faults within and without, which had to be struggled with, as all of us have to struggle to the very end of our days.

Oftentimes not till the battle is high over--sometimes not till it is quite over--does God give us the victory.
Without more discussion on either side, it was agreed that Elizabeth should accompany her mistresses.