The only thing I'm surprised at was that he ever married her.

I never expected it.

I s'posed they'd run off, and he'd leave her when he got tired of her; but it seems he stuck to her.
It's the only good thing he ever done, and I'm not sure but she'd 'a' been better off ef he hadn't 'a' done that." "Grandmother!" Elizabeth's face blazed.
"Yes, _gran_'mother!" snapped Mrs.Brady.

"It's all true, and you might's well face it.

He met her in church.