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'After he was gone, Hannah Rogers, one o' th' neighbours, came in and wanted me to help her to wash I telled her I couldn't just then, for I hadn't set on th' potaties for th' dinner, nor washed up th' breakfast stuff yet So then she began a-calling me for my nasty idle ways I was a little bit vexed at first, but I never said nothing wrong to her: I only telled her like all in a quiet way, 'at I'd had th' new parson to see et done as quick as ever I could, an' then come an' help her So then she softened down; and my heart like as it warood friends An' so it is, Miss Grey, "a soft answer turneth arath; but grievous words stir up anger" It isn't only in them you speak to, but in yourself'

'Very true, Nancy, if we could always remember it'

'Ay, if we could!'

'And did Mr Weston ever coain?'

'Yes, many a time; and since my eyes has been so bad, he's sat an' read to ether: but you know, Miss, he has other folks to see, and other things to do--God bless him! An' that next Sunday he preached SUCH a sermon! His text was, "Come unto ive you rest," and them two blessed verses that follows You wasn't there, Miss, you ith your friends then--but it made me SO happy! And I AM happy now, thank God! an' I take a pleasure, now, in doing little bits o' jobs for hbours--such as a poor old body 'at's half blind can do; and they take it kindly ofa pair o' stockings now;-- they're for Thomas Jackson: he's a queerish old body, an' we've had , one anent t'other; an' at tiht I couldn't do better nor knit his; an' I've felt to like hian It's turned out just as Maister Weston said'

'Well, I'lad to see you so happy, Nancy, and so wise: but I o now; I shall be wanted at the Hall,' said I; and bidding her good-bye, I departed, pro nearly as happy as herself