"But what do you think, my boy?
You know there are disadvantages in it.

There will be a good deal of talk about my taking this showman's grandchild, and some of the farmers' wives won't like it." "Then let them dislike it," James said indignantly.

"The child is as good as their daughters, any day.

Why, I noticed her in church looking like a little lady.

There was not a child there to compare to her." "Yes, I have noticed her myself," Mrs.Walsham said.