There wa'n't anybody in town I set more by than I did by her." "When did you hear from her last, Mandy ?" interposed Mrs.Babcock.
"About a month ago." "I s'pose Lois is a good deal better ?" "Yes, I guess she is.

Her mother said she seemed pretty well for her.
I s'pose it agrees with her better down there." "I s'pose there was a good deal more fuss made about her when she was here than there was any need of," said Mrs.Babcock, her whole face wrinkled upward contemptuously; "a great deal more fuss.

There wa'n't nothin' ailed the girl if folks had let her alone, talkin' an' scarin' her mother to death.

She was jest kind of run down with the spring weather.

Young girls wilt down dreadful easy, an' spring up again.