"I expect they'll drink our green tea till they make bladders of themselves, it is so good.
Your father is a first-rate man; he is an excellent provider, and any woman ought to be proud of him, for he does buy number one in provisions." I looked at her with admiration and respect.
"Capen Curtis," she continued, pursuing a train of thought which the preserves had started, "will never come home, I guess.

He has been in furen parts forever and a day; his wife has looked for him, a-twirling her thumb and fingers, every day for ten years.

I heard your mother had engaged her to go in the new house; she'll take the upper hand of us all.

Your grandfather, Mr.John Morgeson, is willing to part with her; tired of her, I spose.

She has been housekeeping there, off and on, these thirty years.