I know now--know what y'u mean--what y'u have made people believe I am." "Ahuh! Shore I get your hunch," he returned, with a change of tone.
"But I asked you to marry me ?" "Yes y'u did.

The first day y'u got heah to my dad's house.

And y'u asked me to marry y'u after y'u found y'u couldn't have your way with me.

To y'u the one didn't mean any more than the other." "Shore I did more than Simm Bruce an' Colter," he retorted.

"They never asked you to marry." "No, they didn't.