I know it's my duty to go, and I shall go." "You'll kill your poor ma, sir." "No, I sha'n't," I said.

"She won't like my going at first, because it will seem lonely for her out here; but she'll be as pleased as can be afterwards.

Look here: my mother--" "Say _ma_, Master Joe, dear.

Doey, please; it's so much more genteel." "Stuff! it's Frenchy; mother's old English.

Mother don't believe father's dead, does she ?" "Well, no, my dear; she's as obstinate as you are about that." "And she's right.