Nobody can snub me, minister or not.

I think he's kind of stuck-up, if you want to know, and if he is, he'll get took down in a hurry.

Come along, don't stand there with your mouth open like a flytrap.

I'd like to know what he was up to.

I've a precious good mind to follow him; would if 'twa'n't so much trouble." She didn't.