We came out here to get away from every one." Franklin bit his lip.

"Mary Ellen, my child!" cried Mrs.Buford.
"That's hardly fair," said Franklin.

"We are all beginners in this land." Yet there was an awkward break in the conversation.
"Providence guides all our ways," said Mrs.Buford, somewhat irrelevantly, and with her customary sigh.
"Amen!" cried a hearty voice from the kitchen.

"'Scuse meh!" "You will oblige me, captain," said Buford as they finally rose from the table, "if you will be so good as to drive Miss Beauchamp over to the claim shanty after a while.

I'll just ride along over on horseback.