"It's a great nuisance being a girl!" Then Betty fell to watching for the lights at New Madrid, her elbows resting on the rail against which she was leaning, and the soft curve of her chin sunk in the palms of her hands.

She wondered absently what Judith would have said of this river-man.

She smiled a little dubiously.
Judith had certainly vindicated the sincerity of her convictions regarding the importance of family, inasmuch as in marrying Ferris she had married her own second cousin.

She nestled her chin a little closer in her palms.

She remembered that they had differed seriously over Mr.
Yancy's defiance, of the law as it was supposed to be lodged in the sacred person of Mr.Bladen's agent, the unfortunate Blount.