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'Then if they don't want you, I'd see theo to better families who do want you'

'Ah, yes; but I could never put up with the distaste of being welcoet indifference a will enter your head next?' said his h for you, or you too low for her See how careful I be to keep ether to talk to any journeymen people; and I never invite anybody to our party o' Christmases who are not in business for thee people that co 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 ot very little curtseying fro with vexation 'You go on at me, Stephen, as if I were your worst eneing it into reatness, and what happened when he was a young fellow at college, and I don't knohat-all; the tongue o' en flopping round hisround 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 one up so, and the women have stood still Every man you meet is more the dand than his father; and you are just level wi' her'

'That's what she thinks herself'

'It only shows her sense I knew she was after 'ee, Stephen--I knew it'

'After ain that you ought not to be in such a hurry, and wait for a few years You irl then'

'The fact is,about it I shall never go higher, because I don't want to, nor should I if I lived to be a hundred As to you saying that she's after me, I don't like such a re wo for, both of which are not only untrue, but ludicrously untrue, of this case Isn't it so, father?'