I tell you, Trana," said Tant Sannie, "the man is mad with love of me.

I told him the other night I couldn't marry till Em was sixteen, or I'd lose all the sheep her father left me.

And he talked about Jacob working seven years and seven years again for his wife.

And of course he meant me," said Tant Sannie pompously.

"But he won't get me so easily as he thinks; he'll have to ask more than once." "Oh!" said Trana, who was a lumpish girl and not much given to talking; but presently she added, "Aunt, why does the Englishman always knock against a person when he passes them ?" "That's because you are always in the way," said Tant Sannie.
"But, aunt," said Trana, presently, "I think he is very ugly." "Phugh!" said Tant Sannie.