I stood between your mother and your father, fending off this, and fending off that, and getting crushed and pounded betwixt em; and I've done with such work.' 'You will never be asked to begin it again for me, Jeremiah.' 'Good.

I'm glad to hear it; because I should have had to decline it, if I had been.

That's enough--as your mother says--and more than enough of such matters on a Sabbath night.

Affery, woman, have you found what you want yet ?' She had been collecting sheets and blankets from a press, and hastened to gather them up, and to reply, 'Yes, Jeremiah.' Arthur Clennam helped her by carrying the load himself, wished the old man good night, and went up-stairs with her to the top of the house.
They mounted up and up, through the musty smell of an old close house, little used, to a large garret bed-room.

Meagre and spare, like all the other rooms, it was even uglier and grimmer than the rest, by being the place of banishment for the worn-out furniture.