I love them just the same as I love my own: They pet me and spoil me even more than the others do, I think.
I reckon we'll get along, Si." "Oh yes, it will all come out right, old mother.

I wouldn't be afraid to adopt a thousand children if I wanted to, for there's that Tennessee Land, you know--enough to make an army of them rich.

A whole army, Nancy! You and I will never see the day, but these little chaps will.
Indeed they will.

One of these days it will be the rich Miss Emily Hawkins--and the wealthy Miss Laura Van Brunt Hawkins--and the Hon.
George Washington Hawkins, millionaire--and Gov.

Henry Clay Hawkins, millionaire! That is the way the world will word it! Don't let's ever fret about the children, Nancy--never in the world.