"I sent you to school to be made a little lady of, and here you come back speaking worse than a National child."
"All the girls talk like that at school."
"Then seemingly it was a waste to send you there, since you could have learned bad manners cheaper at home."
"But the mistresses don't allow it," said Ellen, in hasty fear of being taken away, "you get a bad mark if you say 'damn.'"
"I should just about think you did, and I'd give you a good spanking too. I never heard such language—no, not even at the Woolpack."
Ellen gave her peculiar, alien smile.
"You're awfully old-fashioned, Jo."
"Old-fashioned, am I, because I don't go against my Catechism and take the Lord's name in vain?"
"Yes, you do—every time you say 'Lord sakes' you take the Lord's name in vain, and it's common into the bargain."
Here Joanna lost her temper and boxed Ellen's ears.