I'm more like father than any of you, and I'd love to have been the boy in the family.

I wonder why he said that." "Well, it certainly shuts off any further negotiations because 'there ain't no sech animal' in the 'robin's' roster.

And no matter what you say, Kit, I don't think you're 'specially like father at all.

He hasn't a quick temper and he's not a single bit domineering." Kit leaned over her tenderly.
"Dearest, am I domineering to you?
Have I crushed your spirit, and made you all weak and pindlin'?
I'm awfully sorry.

I didn't mean that my bad traits were inherited from Dad.