Why, good golly! I should think it would be plain enough to you that I've got to do it if I want to hold up my head and look men in the face.

It's--why, it's an insult to my self-respect and my honesty to even hint that I could do anything but what I'm going to do.

The very fact that your dad ain't going to force the debt makes it all the more necessary that I should pay it.
"Why, good golly, Mary V! I'd feel better toward your father if he had me arrested for being an accomplice with those horse thieves, or slapped an attachment on the plane or something, than wave the whole thing off the way he's doing.

It'd show he looked on me as a man, anyway.
"I'll be darned if I appreciate this way he's got of treating it like a spoiled kid's prank.

I'm going to make him recognize the fact that I'm a _man_, by golly, and that I look at things like a man.