I was a good wife as any in the county--never aggravated my husband.

The cheese-factor used to say my cheese was al'ys to be depended on.

I've known women, as their cheeses swelled a shame to be seen, when their husbands had counted on the cheese-money to make up their rent; and yet they'd three gowns to my one.

If I'm not to be saved, I know a many as are in a bad way.

But it's well for me as I can't go to church any longer, for if th' old singers are to be done away with, there'll be nothing left as it was in Mr.
Patten's time; and what's more, I hear you've settled to pull the church down and build it up new ?' Now the fact was that the Rev.Amos Barton, on his last visit to Mrs.
Patten, had urged her to enlarge her promised subscription of twenty pounds, representing to her that she was only a steward of her riches, and that she could not spend them more for the glory of God than by giving a heavy subscription towards the rebuilding of Shepperton Church--a practical precept which was not likely to smooth the way to her acceptance of his theological doctrine.