"I am always going to play pinocle with you Sunday forenoons as long as you live, grandmother," said she.
"After you are married ?" "Yes, I am." "After you are married to a minister ?" "Yes, grandmother." The old lady sat up straight and eyed Annie with her delighted china blue gaze.
"Mr.von Rosen is a lucky man," said she.

"Enough sight luckier than he knows.

You are just like me, Annie Eustace, and your grandfather set his eyes by me as long as he lived.

A good woman who has sense enough not to follow all the rules and precepts and keep good, isn't found every day, and she can hold a man and holding a man is about as tough a job as the Almighty ever set a woman.

I've got a pearl necklace and a ring in the bank.