1 Hannah was evidently fond of talking.
2 It is better so: Hannah shall go with you.
3 Hush, Hannah; I have a word to say to the woman.
4 Hannah, the servant, was my most frequent visitor.
5 In an undertone she gave some directions to Hannah.
6 Hannah says you have had nothing but some gruel since breakfast.
7 While the driver and Hannah brought in the boxes, they demanded St. John.
8 Hannah had brought me some gruel and dry toast, about, as I supposed, the dinner-hour.
9 And first I must beg you to set Hannah at liberty, and get somebody else to wait on you.
10 They returned within the time Hannah had allotted them: they entered by the kitchen door.
11 In a week, Mr. Rivers and Hannah repaired to the parsonage: and so the old grange was abandoned.
12 Hannah had been cold and stiff, indeed, at the first: latterly she had begun to relent a little; and when she saw me come in tidy and well-dressed, she even smiled.
13 They were expected about dark, and ere dusk fires were lit upstairs and below; the kitchen was in perfect trim; Hannah and I were dressed, and all was in readiness.
14 Hannah had told me in the morning there was a letter for me, and when I went down to take it, almost certain that the long-looked for tidings were vouchsafed me at last, I found only an unimportant note from Mr. Briggs on business.