But neither on his employer nor on the severe face of Mrs. Tinker was Tom's wrapt look so intently fixed. By her uncle's side sat Dorothy, looking, said Ben, in his afternoon account to Hannah, "just as if butter wouldn't melt in her maath. She nivver took her e'en fro' off her Bible or her hymn book or th' parson, barrin' once, an' if 'oo didn't look plainly at Tom then 'oo looked at me, that's all aw can say. But it weren't a look straight out o' her e'en, yo' mun understand, nor wi' her eyes starin' out o' her yead, like some wenches 'll look at a young felly; but just a sort o' a squint aat o'th tail o' her e'en, an' then th' lashes fell part way ovver 'em, an' theer 'oo wer' gazin' at th' parson as if 'ood nivver blinked. It's a mercy 'oo didn't look at me th' same way again, or I'd ha' made a fooil o' missen some road or other, an' chance it. An' Tom, why he went as red as a peony, an' his hand trem'led so he dropped a book an' had to scrat it up wi' his feet by reason o'th pew bein' too narrow for him to get his yed dahn to reick it up wi' his hand i' th' ordinary way. Aw poised his shin for 'im under th' seeat to make him mind his manners for when aw _do_ go to a chapel aw like to behave some-bit-like, an' after that he listened to th' sarmon as good as gowd." "And do you remember the text, father?" "To be sure aw do, trust me for that. Aw gate Tom to nick it with his thumb in his book, an aw wer' settlin' dahn comfortable to th' exposition when aw gate th' full blast o' Miss Dorothy's look, choose 'oo it wer' meant for. It had liked to ha' bowled me ovver, but aw poo'd missen together, an' aw'n getten th' heads o'th discoorse. Reick us th' Bible, missus. It wer' eighth Romans, thirtieth. Read it up, Lucy." "Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified." "Nah! I thowt to missen, we're in for it. Aw liked th' chap's courage. It's holus-bolus, nah, says I, an' th' owder end they looked up at th' parson wi' a grim sort o' look as much as to say, 'Get ovver that if yo' can' an' then they glowered at th' younger end wi' a look 'at said as plain as a pikestaff, 'he's bahn to throw yo' ovver' nah, wi' yo'r new criticism an' yo'r refinin's.'" "An' did he?" asked Lucy and her mother in a breath.