Elnora's face paled a trifle, but she smiled bravely.
"Then I'm fortunate in having a mother," she said.
Mr.Brownlee lingered at the table after the girls had excused themselves and returned to school.
"There's a girl Ellen can't see too much of, in my opinion," he said.
"She is every inch a lady, and not a foolish notion or action about her.
I can't understand just what combination of circumstances produced her in this day." "It has been an unusual case of repression, for one thing.

She waits on her elders and thinks before she speaks," said Mrs.Brownlee.
"She's mighty pretty.

She looks so sound and wholesome, and she's neatly dressed." "Ellen says she was a fright the first two days.

Long brown calico dress almost touching the floor, and big, lumbering shoes.

Those Sinton people bought her clothes.