They've got brains over on that side of Four Winds.

Mebbe that's why this side is sorter inclined to pick on 'em.

Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be." Doctor Dave, who had a forty years' feud with the over-harbor people, laughed and subsided.
"Who lives in that brilliant emerald house about half a mile up the road ?" asked Gilbert.
Captain Jim smiled delightedly.
"Miss Cornelia Bryant.

She'll likely be over to see you soon, seeing you're Presbyterians.

If you were Methodists she wouldn't come at all.
Cornelia has a holy horror of Methodists." "She's quite a character," chuckled Doctor Dave.