You couldn't get along without the umbrellar." Regarding her attentively for a minute, he added, "Emmar will be vexed when she hears that your dress got so splashed." They were both bending somewhat forward against the wind; the road beneath them was glistening with standing water.

When they passed by the woods the trees were creaking and cracking, and over the meadows hung shifting veils of clouds and rain.
"I guess I'd better not take you farther than Sharon Peck's.

Your folks would be pretty mad if you walked through the village with Joe Smith." The lines round Susannah's mouth strengthened themselves; she felt herself superior to those whose attitude of mind he had thus described.
"You have been very kind to come with me.

I'd like better to go home than stop, if it isn't too far." "I guess not.

If you'd lived here longer you'd know that there was all manner of evil said about me, and the worst of it is that some of it's true.