And I may be glad to come back to you again when I have done what I am bound to do.

Remember that I am the last of seven children, and do not even know where the rest are buried." "Now look straight afore you, missy.

What do you see yonner ?" The Sawyer was getting a little tired, perhaps, of this long interruption.
"I see enormous logs, and a quantity of saws, and tools I don't even know the names of.

Also I see a bright, swift river." "But over here, missy, between them two oaks.

What do you please to see there, Miss Rema ?" "What I see there, of course, is a great saw-mill." "But it wouldn't have been 'of course,' and it wouldn't have been at all, if I had spent all my days a-dwelling on the injuries of my family.
Could I have put that there unekaled sample of water-power and human ingenuity together without laboring hard for whole months of a stretch, except upon the Sabbath, and laying awake night after night, and bending all my intellect over it?
And could I have done that, think you now, if my heart was a-mooning upon family wrongs, and this, that, and the other ?" Here Sampson Gundry turned full upon me, and folded his arms, and spread his great chin upon his deer-skin apron, and nodded briskly with his deep gray eyes, surveying me in triumph.