Work?
Why, we don't know what work is, and we waste enough food every day to keep a workman's family, and we're dressed liked queens, in comparison with them right now." "Do you mean to say if he asks you-- ?" It was a small explosion.
"I mean to say if he asks me, 'buy me that two hundred acres of land where I want it, build me the house and barns I want, and guarantee that I may live there as I please, and I'll marry you to-morrow.' If it's Chicago--Never! I haven't stolen, murdered, or betrayed, who should I be imprisoned ?" "Why, you hopeless anarchist!" said Nancy Ellen, "I am going to tell John Jardine on you." "Do!" urged Kate.

"Sound him on the land question.

It's our only hope of a common foundation.

Have you send Agatha word that we will be out this afternoon ?" "I have," said Nancy Ellen.

"And I don't doubt that now, even now, she is in the kitchen--how would she put it ?" "'Compounding a cake,'" said Kate, "while Adam is in the cellar 'freezing a custard.' Adam, 3d, will be raking the yard afresh and Susan will be sweeping the walks steadily from now until they sight us coming down the road.