I'd like to know what Cephas Barnard has got to say because he's drove a good, likely young man like Barnabas Thayer off an' broke off his daughter's match?
It ain't likely she'll ever get anybody now; young men like him, with nice new houses put up to go right to housekeepin' in as soon as they are married, don't grow on every bush.

They ain't quite so thick as wild thimbleberries.

An' Charlotte ain't got any money herself, an' her father ain't got any to build a house for her.

I'd like to know what he's got to say about it ?" Mrs.Barnard put up her apron and began to weep helplessly.
"Don't, mother," said Charlotte, in an undertone.

But her mother began talking in a piteous wailing fashion.
"You hadn't ought to talk so about Cephas," she moaned.