Then to put it baldly, you want of life a man, a farm, and a family." "You comprehend me beautifully," said Kate.

"All my life I've worked like a towhead to help earn two hundred acres of land for someone else.
I think there's nothing I want so much as two hundred acres of land for myself.

I'd undertake to do almost anything with it, if I had it.

I know I could, if I had the shoulder-to-shoulder, real man.

You notice it will take considerable of a man to touch shoulders with me; I'm a head taller than most of them." Mrs.Jardine looked at her speculatively.