No, I will not forgive you," and she gave the horse two or three sharp cuts, which it took like a martyr.

"Oh, I wish you would misbehave a little now; I should like to punish you severely." They made a very pretty picture, the little jet-black mare, and the mistress with her scarlet paragon bodice, even if the latter was entirely too pronounced for the taste of the great majority of the inhabitants, young and old, of Salem village.
"But how do you happen to be here ?" said the girl.
"I called to see you, and found you had gone on a visit to Joseph Putnam's.

So I thought I would walk up the road and meet you coming back." "What a sweet creature Mistress Putnam is, and both so young for man and wife." "Yes, Jo married early, but he is big enough and strong enough, don't you think so ?" "He is a worshiped man indeed.

Have you met the stranger yet ?" "That Ellis Raymond?
No, but I hear he is something of a popinjay in his attire, and swelled up with the conceit that he is better than any of us colonists." "I do not think so," and the girl's cheek colored a deeper red.

"He seems to be a very modest young man indeed.