I know the way, and father trusts me to drive." "I wasn't going against 'ee, Miss Kitty.

If you'm set on it you'm set on it, and 'tisn't no manner of use for me to talk." Dan and the others came sauntering down from the garden again.
"Jabez, you might give me the nail out of that bit of wood," said Dan; "every half-ounce counts, and I want to get enough iron to sell." Jabez shook his head knowingly.

He would rather not have had any further reference made to the affair, for he was really devoted to them all, and was ashamed of his part in it.

He always made a point, though, of seeming to distrust them; he thought it safer.
"Ah, I ain't so sure," he began, "that it'd be wise of me to let 'ee 'ave it.

I dunno what more 'arm you mightn't be doing with it." "We couldn't do more harm than you have done already," snapped Dan.
"You've nailed Aunt Pike fast to the house with it, and it will take more than we can do to get her away again." "What be saying of, sir ?" asked Jabez, bewildered, and suddenly realizing that their sombre faces and manner meant something more than usual.