"I want to just sit here and keep still till they're gone," said she.
She sat there.

Some of the others came and added their persuasions to Paulina Maria's, but she was firm.

Jerome remained beside his mother; Elmira had been bidden to go into the other room and help wait upon the company.
"There's room for Jerome at the table, if you ain't coming," said Paulina Maria to Ann; but Jerome answered for himself.
"I'll wait till that crowd are gone," said he, with a fierce gesture.
"You wouldn't speak that way if you were my boy," said Paulina Maria.
Jerome muttered under his breath that he wasn't her boy.

Paulina Maria cast a stern glance at him as she went out.
"Don't you be saucy, Jerome Edwards," Ann said, in a sharp whisper through her black veil.

"She's done a good deal for us." "I'd like to kill the whole lot!" said the boy, clinching his little fist.
"Hold your tongue! You're a wicked, ungrateful boy!" said his mother; but all the time she had a curious sympathy with him.