Never, retorted Rusticus.

And why, in the name of Heaven, have you never asked?
cried the crowd.

Because, said the farmer--" Lawrence Newt looked at his auditors.

"Are you listening, dear Fanny ?" "Yes, Uncle Lawrence." "-- because it's none of my business." Lawrence Newt smiled; so did all the rest, including Fanny, who remarked that he might have told her in fewer words that she was impertinent.
"Yes, Fanny; but sometimes words help us to remember things.

It is a great point gained when we have learned to hoe the potatoes in our own fields, and not vex our souls about our neighbor's towers." Hope Wayne was not in the least abstracted.