"A most inveterate man-hater!" "Sour grapes ?" queried Gilbert, laughing.
"No, 'tisn't sour grapes," answered Captain Jim seriously.

"Cornelia could have had her pick when she was young.

Even yet she's only to say the word to see the old widowers jump.

She jest seems to have been born with a sort of chronic spite agin men and Methodists.

She's got the bitterest tongue and the kindest heart in Four Winds.