I'm sure I never stop for more than a minute together to talk to any journeymen people; and I never invite anybody to our party o' Christmases who are not in business for themselves.

And I talk to several toppermost carriage people that come to my lord's without saying ma'am or sir to 'em, and they take it as quiet as lambs.' 'You curtseyed to the vicar, mother; and I wish you hadn't.' 'But it was before he called me by my Christian name, or he would have got very little curtseying from me!' said Mrs.Smith, bridling and sparkling with vexation.

'You go on at me, Stephen, as if I were your worst enemy! What else could I do with the man to get rid of him, banging it into me and your father by side and by seam, about his greatness, and what happened when he was a young fellow at college, and I don't know what-all; the tongue o' en flopping round his mouth like a mop-rag round a dairy.

That 'a did, didn't he, John ?' 'That's about the size o't,' replied her husband.
'Every woman now-a-days,' resumed Mrs.Smith, 'if she marry at all, must expect a father-in-law of a rank lower than her father.

The men have gone up so, and the women have stood still.