She's got such queer ways; she's always driving about in a gig with that low German; and I don't think it's at all the thing for a woman to be going about with a man she's not engaged to.

Do you?
If it was me now, of course, who am a kind of connection, it would be different.

The way she treats me, considering that I am so soon to be her cousin, is not at all nice.

I took down my album the other day with your likenesses in it, and I told her she could look at it, and put it down close to her; but she just said, Thank you, and never even touched it, as much as to say--What are your relations to me?
"She gets the wildest horses in that buggy, and a horrid snappish little cur belonging to the German sitting in front, and then she drives out alone.

I don't think it's at all proper for a woman to drive out alone; I wouldn't allow it if she was my sister.