It's born in her to be contrary just as it is in that hopvine out yonder that you can't train up straight." "All the same, if I were going through fire and water for a girl, I'd be pretty sure to choose one that would make it worth my while at the end.
I wouldn't put up with all that hectoring for the sake of anybody that was as sweet to half a dozen other fellows as she was to me." Abel's face darkened threateningly under his silvered hair.
"If you are trying to hint anything against Molly, you'd as well stop in the beginning," he said.

"It isn't right--I'll be hanged if it is!--that every man in the county should be down on a little thing like that, no bigger than a child.

It wasn't her fault, was it, if her father played false with her mother ?" "Oh, I'm not blaming her, am I?
As far as that goes all the women like her well enough, and so do all the dogs and the children.

The trouble seems to be, doesn't it, merely that the men like her too much?
She's got a way with her, there's no question about that." "Why in thunder do you want to blacken her character ?" "I wasn't blackenin' her character.

I merely meant that she was a flirt, and you know that as well as I do--better, I shouldn't wonder." "It's the way she was brought up.