When you thought of that, you could see she wouldn't be likely to implore the Almighty to send her another, just to make her family even numbers.

I never felt much hurt at her, but some of the others I never have forgiven and maybe I never will.
As long as there had been eleven babies, they should have been so accustomed to children that they needn't all of them have objected to me, all except Laddie, of course.

That was the reason I loved him so and tried to do every single thing he wanted me to, just the way he liked it done.

That was why I was facing the only spot on our land where I was in the slightest afraid; because he asked me to.
If he had told me to dance a jig on the ridgepole of our barn, I would have tried it.
So I clasped the note, set my teeth, and climbed over the gate.

I walked fast and kept my eyes straight before me.