Since she came up with her ladyship from the green she has been treated quite like one of the guests, and has been walking about the garden and ruins all the afternoon with young Mistress Dorothy, who has taken quite a fancy to her.

Indeed, for the matter of that, all the ladies seem to have taken a fancy to her, and she is now closeted with Mistress Nutter in her own room." This was gall and wormwood to Jennet.
"She'll be hard to please when she goes home again, after playing the fine dame here," pursued the steward.
"Then ey hope she'll never come home again," rejoined Jennet; spitefully, "fo' we dunna want fine dames i' our poor cottage." "For my part I do not wonder Alizon pleases the gentle folks," observed Sampson Harrop, "since such pains have been taken with her manners and education; and I must say she does great credit to her instructor, who, for reasons unnecessary to mention, shall be nameless.

I wish I could say the same for you, Jennet; but though you're not deficient in ability, you've no perseverance or pleasure in study." "Ey knoa os much os ey care to knoa," replied Jennet, "an more than yo con teach me, Mester Harrop.

Why is Alizon always to be thrown i' my teeth ?" "Because she's the best model you can have," rejoined Sampson.

"Ah! if I'd my own way wi' ye, lass, I'd mend your temper and manners.