It's as if we had the sun the whole winter now, and people can see to earn a few pence." "Yes, but everything hasn't got right in that way either, when they sit and play cards and gamble and drink at the public-houses." "That's not oil, that's gas! But that's good for something, too, both in the street lamps and up in the factory." "And for drunkenness and dancing and wickedness." Mother Baekken made a bend down to her cup with the side of her cheek and her chin, and up again in order to contradict in her most ingenious manner.

But just then Anne Graves came in to the counter--it was she who kept the churchyard in order--and then one must be careful what one says.
Thank you kindly! She had no objection to a warm cup of coffee in this cold.

She had had a busy day to-day with the big funeral; they must have heard all the ringing at dinner-time.

He was an excellent man.

She enlarged, by the plundering of diverse fragments of the funeral sermon, upon his worth and importance as a man and a citizen of the town.