"We had to quit school.
Folks can live with empty heads, but they can't with empty stomachs.
It had to be one or the other.

If you want to twit us with bein' poor, you can, Jennie Stebbins." "I haven't said anything," said Mrs.Stebbins, with a scared and injured air.

"I'd like to know what you're making all this fuss about?
I don't know.

What did I say ?" "If I'd said anything mean, I wouldn't turn tail an' run, I'd stick to it about one minute and a half, if it killed me," said Eva, scornfully.
"You know what you was hintin' at, jest as well as we do," said Fanny; "but it ain't so true as you and some other folks may think, I can tell you that.

If Eva and me didn't go to school as long as some, we have always read every chance we could get." "That's so," said Eva, emphatically.