All Hannah Berry's thought slid, as it were, in well-greased grooves; only give one a starting push and it went on indefinitely and left all others behind, and her sister Sylvia knew it.
"Well, she's got 'em pretty near done," replied Hannah Berry.

"Her underclothes are all done, an' the quilts; the weddin'-dress ain't bought yet, an' she's got to have a mantilla.

Do you know Charlotte ain't never wore that handsome mantilla she had when she was expectin' to marry Barney ?" "Ain't she ?" "No, she ain't, nor her silk gown neither.

I said all I darsed to.

I thought mebbe she or Sarah would offer; they both of 'em know how hard it is to get anything out of Silas; but they didn't, an' I wa'n't goin' to ask, nohow.