Both her dimples were buried out of sight, and she had as many wrinkles in her forehead as grandma Head.

Johnny danced about the room, holding before her eyes the bone of contention, then drawing it away again in the most provoking manner.
"If you act so, Johnny Eastman, I won't have you for my bridegroom." "And I won't have you for my bride--so there!" The moment these words were spoken, the angry children were frightened.
They had not intended to go so far.

It had been their greatest pleasure for several weeks to think of "standing up" at a wedding; and they would neither of them have missed the honor on any account.

But now, in their foolish strife, they had made it impossible to do the very thing they most desired to do.

They had said the fatal words, and were both of them too proud to draw back.