Poor Launcie! I saw him once at a ball in Kendal.
Are you sure he was drowned ?" "I followed him to Whitehaven, and found out that he had gone away in a ship that never came home.

Mother and Launcie were in bad bread when he left, and she never fretted for him as she did for Tom." "Why did you not tell me all this before ?" "I said to myself, there's time enough yet to be planning husbands for girls that haven't a thought of the kind.

We were very happy with them; I couldn't bear to break things up; and I never once feared about Steve Latrigg, not I." "What does your brother and his wife say ?" "Tom is with me.

As for his wife, I know nothing of her, and she knows nothing of us.

She has been in England a good many times, but she never said she would like to come and see us, and my mother never wanted to see her; so there wasn't a compliment wasted, you see.