It was awful, she thought, to see young fellows and big lumps of girls like the Bradys stalk into a ballroom and sit the whole night long in a corner, without attempting to get up.

She did n't know how mothers COULD bring children up so ignorantly, and did n't wonder at some of them not being able to find husbands for their daughters.
But we had a lot to feel thankful for.

Besides a sympathetic mother, every other facility was afforded us to become accomplished.

Abundance of freedom; enthusiastic sisters; and no matter how things were going--whether the corn would n't come up, or the wheat had failed, or the pumpkins had given out, or the water-hole run dry--we always had a concertina in the house.

It never failed to attract company.