If you'd remember that, and practice it, you'd be better liked than I am, because there is more of you." "I'm a crotchety old thing, and always shall be, but I'm willing to own that you are right, only it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it.

It's a great misfortune to have such strong likes and dislikes, isn't it ?" "It's a greater not to be able to hide them.

I don't mind saying that I don't approve of Tudor any more than you do, but I'm not called upon to tell him so.

Neither are you, and there is no use in making yourself disagreeable because he is." "But I think girls ought to show when they disapprove of young men, and how can they do it except by their manners?
Preaching does not do any good, as I know to my sorrow, since I've had Teddie to manage.

But there are many little ways in which I can influence him without a word, and I say we ought to do it to others if we can." "Teddy is a remarkable boy, and can't be taken as a sample of other boys," said Amy, in a tone of solemn conviction, which would have convulsed the 'remarkable boy' if he had heard it.