It was not the custom to say "please" and "thank you" and Mary had always slapped her Ayah in the face when she was angry.

She wondered a little what this girl would do if one slapped her in the face.

She was a round, rosy, good-natured looking creature, but she had a sturdy way which made Mistress Mary wonder if she might not even slap back--if the person who slapped her was only a little girl.
"You are a strange servant," she said from her pillows, rather haughtily.
Martha sat up on her heels, with her blacking-brush in her hand, and laughed, without seeming the least out of temper.
"Eh! I know that," she said.

"If there was a grand Missus at Misselthwaite I should never have been even one of th' under housemaids.
I might have been let to be scullery-maid but I'd never have been let up-stairs.

I'm too common an' I talk too much Yorkshire.