"I did hear, an' that's enough.

Now I want to know if you're really goin' to set down like an old hen an' give up, an' let this match between Charlotte an' a good, smart, likely young man like Barnabas Thayer be broken off on account of Cephas Barnard's crazy freaks ?" Sarah stiffened her neck.

"There ain't no call for you to speak that way, Hannah.

They got to talkin' over the 'lection." "The 'lection! I'd like to know what business they had talkin' about it Sabbath night anyway?
I ain't blamin' Barnabas so much; he's younger an' easier stirred up; but Cephas Barnard is an old man, an' he has been a church-member for forty year, an' he ought to know enough to set a better example.

I'd like to know what difference it makes about the 'lection anyway?
What odds does it make which one is President if he rules the country well?
An' that they can't tell till they've tried him awhile anyway.