Is this a time for feathers?
What will they think on't?
If you can spend money for silk scarfs and plumes, they'll expect you, and with good reason, too, to raise the debt on the meetin'-house." He paused.

Economy prevailed; what love couldn't effect or common sense, closeness did.
His brow cleared from its anxious, ambitious creases, and sez he, "Wall, do come on and less be goin.".