I'm sure _I_ never heard of any person who is always going and getting her life saved, and bothered, and proposed to, and written to, and chased, and frightened to death.

And I've a _great_ mind to go and get married, just to stop it all.

And I'd _just_ as soon marry this last man as not, and make him drive all the others away from me.

He's big enough." Minnie ended all this with a little sob; and her sister, as usual, did her best to soothe and quiet her.
"Well, but, darling, how did it all happen ?" "Oh, don't, don't." "But you might tell _me_" "Oh, I can't bear to think of it.

It's too horrible." "Poor darling--the crater ?" "No, the great, big man.