You know you won't look up that poor woman's son! Why did you let her think you would ?" "How could I tell her I wouldn't?
Perhaps I shall." "No, no! You never will.

I know you're good and kind, and that's why I can't understand your being so cruel.

When we get back, how will you ever find time to go over to Jersey City ?" He could not tell, but at last he said: "I'll tell you what! You must keep me up to it.

You know how much you enjoy making me do my duty, and this will be such a pleasure!" She laughed forlornly, but after a moment she took his arm; and he began, from the example of this good mother, to philosophize the continuous simplicity and sanity of the people of Ansbach under all their civic changes.

Saints and soldiers, knights and barons, margraves, princes, kings, emperors, had come and gone, and left their single-hearted, friendly subjectfolk pretty much what they found them.
The people had suffered and survived through a thousand wars, and apparently prospered on under all governments and misgovernments.