I never was so set back in my born days.

Yes, you can laugh!" She laughed herself as she said it.

As for Grace, it was sometime before that young lady became coherent.
"He DID look so funny!" she gasped.

"Hopping up and down on that shaky chair and holding on to that pipe and--and--O Aunt Keziah, if you could have seen your face when I opened that door!" "Yes; well, I will say you was sometime gettin' it open.

And then, on top of the whole fool business, in parades Elkanah Daniels and--" She paused.