John minds your lightest word.

Tell him to be patient with me." "I will--but thou must do thy best to even things.

Thou must be more interested in John.

Martha is with God.

If she hed lived, thou would varry soon be sending her off to some unlovelike, polite boarding-school, and a few years later thou would make a grand feast, and deck her in satin and lace and jewels and give her as a sacrifice to some man thou knew little about--just as the old pagans used to dress up the young heifers with flowers and ribbons before they offered them in blood and flame to Jupiter or the like of him.