He had scarcely expected any payment, certainly none so full and prompt as this.
"I thought I'd let you see you hadn't any cause to feel afraid you wouldn't get it," said Ann, with dignity.

"Elmira, you can put the money back in the stockin' now, and put the stockin' back under the feather-bed." Squire Merritt felt like a great school-boy before this small, majestic woman.

"I did not feel afraid, Mrs.Edwards," he said, awkwardly.
"I didn't know but you might," said she, scornfully; "people didn't seem to think we could do anything." "All I wonder at is," said the Squire, rallying a little, "how you managed to get so much money together." "Do you want to know?
Well, I'll tell you.

We've bound shoes, Elmira an' me, for one thing.

We've took all they would give us.