'Twould have come out afore now.

What under heavens put her into your noddle?
She can't _boost_! and then she's head and shoulders taller than you be! How you would look trottin' beside her! Jerrie Crawford! Wal, I swan!' and Peterkin laughed until his big stomach shook like a bowl of jelly.
Billy was angry, and replied that he did not know what height had to do with it, or name either; and as for _boosting_, he wouldn't marry a king's daughter, if he did not love her; and for that matter Jerrie could boost, for she stood quite as high in town as any young lady.
Both Nina St.Claire and Maude Tracy worshipped her, while Mrs.Atherton paid her a great deal of attention; and so did the Mungers and Crosbys--enough sight more than they did to Ann Eliza with all her money.
'Mo-money isn't ev-everything.' Billy stammered, 'and Je-Jerrie would make a ve-very different pl-place of Le Bateau.' 'Mebby she would--mebby she would; but I'd never thought of her for you,' Peterkin said.

'I'd picked out some; big bug, who perhaps wouldn't wipe her shoes on you.

Jerrie is handsome as blazes and no mistake, with a kinder up and comin' way about her which takes the folks.

Yes, it keeps growin' on me, and I presume Arthur Tracy would give her away, which would be a feather in your cap; but lord! you'll have to git a pair of the highest heels you ever seen to come within ten foot on her.' 'She's only two inches t-taller than I am,' Billy said, and his father continued: 'Wall, if your heart's set on her go it, and quick, too, I'm goin' to have a smasher of a party in the fall, and Jerrie'll be just the one to draw, I can see her now, standin' there with the diamonds we'll give her sparklin' on her neck, and she lookin' like a queen, and the _sinecure_ of all eyes.