Her brother Amos was a MacDonaldite in religion.

I am told he used to take the jerks something fearful.

But you look more like your great grandfather West than the MacAllisters.

He died of a paralytic stroke quite early in life." "Did you see anybody at the store ?" asked Rilla desperately, in the faint hope of directing Susan's conversation into more agreeable channels.
"Nobody except Mary Vance," said Susan, "and she was stepping round as brisk as the Irishman's flea." What terrible similes Susan used! Would Kenneth think she acquired them from the family! "To hear Mary talk about Miller Douglas you would think he was the only Glen boy who had enlisted," Susan went on.

"But of course she always did brag and she has some good qualities I am willing to admit, though I did not think so that time she chased Rilla here through the village with a dried codfish till the poor child fell, heels over head, into the puddle before Carter Flagg's store." Rilla went cold all over with wrath and shame.