I quite agree with Aunt Polly that family quarrels are foolish things.' 'I am not so sure.

Some people doom themselves to an infinity of annoyance because they won't avoid the society of disagreeable people.

I don't know that I have ever quarrelled with any one.

I have never intended to do so.

But when I find that a man or woman is not sympathetic I think it better to keep out of the way.' That was the squire's account of himself.