"But ye cud 'a' stood a bit more flesh, I'm thinkin'." "No, no," she denied.

"Not at twenty, Matt, not at twenty.

Feel my arm, you'll see." She doubled that member till the biceps knotted.
"'Tis muscle," he admitted, passing his hand admiringly over the swelling bunch; "just as though ye'd been workin' hard for yer livin'." "Oh, I can swing clubs, and box, and fence," she cried, successively striking the typical postures; "and swim, and make high dives, chin a bar twenty times, and--and walk on my hands.

There!" "Is that what ye've been doin'?
I thought ye wint away for book-larnin'," he commented, dryly.
"But they have new ways of teaching, now, Matt, and they don't turn you out with your head crammed--" "An' yer legs that spindly they can't carry it all! Well, an' I forgive ye yer muscle." "But how about yourself, Matt ?" Frona asked.

"How has the world been to you these twelve years ?" "Behold!" He spread his legs apart, threw his head back, and his chest out.