As Abel closed the gate, she looked up, and the expression of his face held her eyes while he came toward her.
"What has happened, Abel?
You look like Moses when he came down from the mountain." "It was all wrong--what I told you last night, mother.

Molly is going to marry me." "You mean she's gone an' changed her mind jest as you'd begun to git along without her.

I declar', I don't know what has got into you to show so little sperit.

If you were the man I took you to be, you'd up an' let her see quick enough that you don't ax twice in the same quarter." "Oh, all that's over now--she's going to marry me." "You needn't shout so.

I ain't deaf.