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"Makeshift, mother?" said Adam "Why, I think the house looks beautiful I don't kno it could look better"

"Thee dostna know? Nay; how's thee to know? Th' men ne'er knohether the floor's cleaned or cat-licked But thee'lt knohen thee gets thy parridge burnt, as it's like enough to be when I'n gi'en o'er ood for summat then"

"Dinah," said Seth, "do come and sit do and have your breakfast We're all served now"

"Aye, come an' sit ye down--do," said Lisbeth, "an' ate a s this hour an' half a'ready Co affection, as Dinah sat down by her side, "I'll be loath for ye t' go, but ye canna stay er, I doubt I could put up wi' ye i' th' house better nor wi' ," said Dinah "I'd stay longer, only I' back to Snowfield on Saturday, and I o back to that country My old man come fro un, an' i' the right on't too; for he said as there war no wood there, an' it 'ud ha' been a bad country for a carpenter"

"Ah," said Ada me when I was a little lad that he made up his mind if ever he moved it should be south'ard But I'm not so sure about it Bartle Massey says--and he knows the South--as the northern men are a finer breed than the southern, harder-headed and stronger-bodied, and a deal taller And then he says in some o' those counties it's as flat as the back o' your hand, and you can see nothing of a distance without clio to work by a road that'll take me up a bit of a hill, and see the fields for e, or a town, or a bit of a steeple here and there Itplace, and there's otherin it with their heads and hands besides yourself"

"I like th' hills best," said Seth, "when the clouds are over your head and you see the sun shining ever so far off, over the Loamford way, as I've often done o' late, on the stormy days It seems to me as if that was heaven where there's always joy and sunshine, though this life's dark and cloudy"