We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's sinful.
Source: (Mrs Kenwigs) Nicholas Nickleby, Ch. 16
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7 1812-1870), English novelist, dramatist; He was one of most prolific and popular English novelists, e.g., A Christmas Carol, 1843 & Tale of Two Cities, 1859.