But I'm no enemy o' the Church, sir, when the Church brings light to the ignorant and the sinful; an' that's what you're a-doin', Mr.Tryan.Yes, sir, I'll stan' by you.

I'll go to church wi' you o' Sunday evenin'.' 'You'd far better stay at home, Mr.Jerome, if I may give my opinion,' interposed Mrs.Jerome.

'It's not as I hevn't ivery respect for you, Mr.
Tryan, but Mr.Jerome 'ull do you no good by his interferin'.

Dissenters are not at all looked on i' Milby, an' he's as nervous as iver he can be; he'll come back as ill as ill, an' niver let me hev a wink o' sleep all night.' Mrs.Jerome had been frightened at the mention of a mob, and her retrospective regard for the religious communion of her youth by no means inspired her with the temper of a martyr.

Her husband looked at her with an expression of tender and grieved remonstrance, which might have been that of the patient patriarch on the memorable occasion when he rebuked his wife.
'Susan, Susan, let me beg on you not to oppose me, and put stumblin'-blocks i' the way o' doing' what's right.