After her new stove was set up in her back kitchen, she often alluded to Hannah Berry's conservative principles with scorn.

Hannah's sister, Mrs.
Barnard, had told her how a stove could be set up in the tavern any minute; but Hannah despised new notions.

"Hannah won't have one, nohow," said Mrs.Barnard.

"I dunno but I would, if Cephas could afford it, and wa'n't set against it.

It seems to me it might save a sight of work." "Some folks are rooted so deep in old notions that they can't see their own ideas over them," declared Deborah.