If it had been I, Father would have told me to teach my school this winter, buy my own clothes and linen with the money I had earned, and do my sewing next summer.

But I am not jealous.
It is because she is handsome, and the man fine-looking and with such good prospects." "There you have it!" said Adam emphatically.

"If it were you, marrying Jim Lang, to live on Lang's west forty, you WOULD pay your own way.
But if it were you marrying a fine-looking young doctor, who will soon be a power in Hartley, no doubt, it would tickle Father's vanity until he would do the same for you." "I doubt it!" said Kate.

"I can't see the vanity in Father." "You can't ?" said Adam, Jr., bitterly.

"Maybe not! You have not been with him in the Treasurer's office when he calls for 'the tax on those little parcels of land of mine.' He looks every inch of six feet six then, and swells like a toad.