You can always tell what kind of a family anybody comes from by the way they take things when anything comes across them.

You can't depend on anything she says this morning.

My son did not marry just as I wished; everybody knows that; the Louds weren't equal to our family, and everybody knows it, and I have never made any secret as to how I felt, but we have always got along well enough.

The Brewsters are not quarrelsome; they never have been.

There were no words whatever last night to make my granddaughter run away.