I hain't never been to one, and you can't be too keerful where you go, in a place like New York." "What's the reason you can't go ?" Dryfoos ignored the passage between his wife and daughter in making this demand of his son, with a sour face.
"I have an engagement that night--it's one of our meetings." "I reckon you can let your meeting go for one night," said Dryfoos.
"It can't be so important as all that, that you must disappoint your sisters." "I don't like to disappoint those poor creatures.

They depend so much upon the meetings--" "I reckon they can stand it for one night," said the old man.

He added, "The poor ye have with you always." "That's so, Coonrod," said his mother.

"It's the Saviour's own words." "Yes, mother.

But they're not meant just as father used them." "How do you know how they were meant?
Or how I used them ?" cried the father.