I was stout as an ox when Mary wanted to go to school.

It is your duty and your job to stay here and do this work." "To pay for having been born last?
Not a bit more than if I had been born first.

Any girl in the family owes you as much for life as I do; it is up to the others to pay back in service, after they are of age, if it is to me.

I have done my share.

If Father were not the richest farmer in the county, and one of the richest men, it would be different.