I'm no bug; I'm a woman." "Emeline, you set down.

You've hove out a whole lot of hints about my not bein' a man because I run away from your house.

Do you think I'd have been more of a man if I'd stayed in it?
Stayed there and been a yaller dog to be kicked out of one corner and into another by you and--and that brother-in-law of yours.

That's all I was--a dog." "Humph! if a dog's the right breed--and big enough--it's his own fault if he's kicked twice." "Not if he cares more for his master than he does for himself--'taint." "Why, yes, it is.

He can make his master respect him by provin' he ain't the kind of dog to kick.