Instead of that, you took it for granted you were right because no one had ever suggested that you were wrong, while your mother had petted you to death.

I have not the honor of her acquaintance, but I must say I consider her a very remarkable person, even for a Western woman." "My mother was born East," Richard suggested, and Mrs.Van Buren continued: "Certainly; but that does not help the matter.

It rather makes it worse, for of all disagreeable people, a Western Yankee is, I think, the most disagreeable.

Such an one never improves, but adheres strictly to the customs of their native place, no matter how many years have passed since they lived there, or how great the march of improvement may have been.

In these days of railroads and telegraphs there is no reason why your mother should not be up to the times.