The surplus vegetables and fruit she carried to the village market, and though they brought but a trifle in a country town, where every thing was so abundant, yet Peggy said, "we must not despise the day of small gains." She took the lead in all business matters in-doors and out-doors.

She never asked my mother if she had better do this and that; she went right ahead, doing what she thought right and best, in every thing pertaining to the drudgery of life.
When I was a little child, I used to ask her many a question about the mystery of my life.

I asked her about my father, of my kindred, and the place of my birth.
"Miss Gabriella," she would answer, "you mustn't ask questions.

Your mother does not wish it.

She has forbidden me to say one word of all you want to know.