This put my mother into a great passion passion ; she told tell me she knew it would be to no purpose to speak to my father upon any such subject ; that he knew too well what was my interest to give his consent to anything so much for my hurt ; and that she wondered wonder how I could think of any such thing after the discourse discourse I had had with my father , and such kind and tender expressions expression as she knew my father had used to me ; and that , in short , if I would ruin myself , there was no help for me ; but I might depend I should never have their consent to it ; that for her part she would not have so much hand in my destruction ; and I should never have it to say that my mother was willing when my father was not .

She only became more wistfully affectionate affectionate than ever in her expressions expression , and looked as disappointed as I expected when I frankly told tell her that I could no longer enjoy the pleasure of what we called “ seein ’ folks . ”

As soon as the bacon was well under way , and Millie , her lymphatic maid , had been brisked brisk up a bit by a few deftly chosen choose expressions expression of contempt , she carried carry the cloth , plates , and glasses into the parlour and began to lay lie them with the utmost _ eclat _ .