"He's my husband.

I guess you wouldn't like it if anybody talked so about your husband.

Cephas ain't any worse than anybody else.

It's jest his way.
He wa'n't any more to blame than Barney; they both got to talkin'.

I know Cephas is terrible upset about it this mornin'; he 'ain't really said so in so many words, but I know by the way he acts.