Darned sight better-lookin' by daylight than she wuz then!" said the stable-boy.
"Hm! boys an' men, ye 're all alike,--all for looks," said the cook, who was a lean and ill-favored spinster, at least fifty years old.

"The gal isn't any thin' so amazin' for good looks, 's I can see; but she's got mighty sarchin' eyes in her head.

I wonder if she's a lookin' for somebody they're expectin'." "Steve White he was with 'em down to the depot," replied the stable-boy.
"Seth sed he handed on 'em into the kerridge, 's if they were regular topknots, sure enough." "Hm! Seth Quin 's a fool, 'n' always wuz," replied the cook, with a seemingly uncalled-for acerbity of tone.

"I've allus observed that them that hez the most to say about topknots hez the least idea of what topknots really is.

There ain't a touch o' topknot about that ere girl: she's come o' real humbly people.