She's goin' away twenty mile aff.

How's she to get a likin' for him, I'd like to know?
No more nor the cake 'ull come wi'out the leaven.

Thy figurin' books might ha' tould thee better nor that, I should think, else thee mightst as well read the commin print, as Seth allays does." "Nay, Mother," said Adam, laughing, "the figures tell us a fine deal, and we couldn't go far without 'em, but they don't tell us about folks's feelings.

It's a nicer job to calculate THEM.

But Seth's as good-hearted a lad as ever handled a tool, and plenty o' sense, and good-looking too; and he's got the same way o' thinking as Dinah.