He's the best friend we have.' 'You'd better make sure of him for good and all,' I said.

'I suppose he's pretty well-to-do now with that new farm he bought the other day.' 'Oh! you saw that,' she said.

'Yes; he bought out the Cumberers.

They never did any good with Honeysuckle Flat, though the land was so good.
He's going to lay it all down in lucerne, he says.' 'And then he'll smarten up the cottage, and sister Aileen 'll go over, and live in it,' says Jim; 'and a better thing she couldn't do.' 'I don't know,' she said.

'Poor George, I wish I was fonder of him.
There never was a better man, I believe; but I cannot leave mother yet, so it's no use talking.' Then she got up and went in.
'That's the way of the world,' says Jim.