She thought that he feared pain from hearing Dahlia's name, and followed him with her eyes commiseratingly.
"Does that young fellow attend to business ?" said Anthony.
The farmer praised Robert as a rare hand, but one affected with bees in his nightcap,--who had ideas of his own about farming, and was obstinate with them; "pays you due respect, but's got a notion as how his way of thinking's better 'n his seniors.

It's the style now with all young folks.

Makes a butt of old Mas' Gammon; laughs at the old man.

It ain't respectful t' age, I say.

Gammon don't understand nothing about new feeds for sheep, and dam nonsense about growing such things as melons, fiddle-faddle, for 'em.