I knew what the lode meant to my mother and how she hated to hear the old man talk about it.

It took him--and now it's got my sister--" He stopped, struggling with emotion, and Mrs.Farnam said: "Perhaps I ought to have given Agatha a plainer hint; but, except for school managers, we're not very conventional people in this country.
Then I liked her pluck.

It's weak to give way to the prejudices of censorious folks.

Besides, in a sense, she really wasn't rash." "That's not the trouble," George replied with heat.

"I know my sister; so do you! But she's got to start business since she can't teach school, and I hate to think of her clerking in a store.