You're a good girl and a smart girl--the smartest and best girl there is in this town.

A girl like that ought to do somethin' better'n than stay here in South Harniss and keep store.

Keepin' store's all right for old hulks like Zoeth Hamilton and Shad Gould, but you ain't an old hulk; you're a young craft right off the ways and you ought to have a chance to cruise in the best water there is." "Uncle Shad, what are you talking about?
Cruise in the best water ?" "That's what I said.

You ought to mix with the best folks and get a fine education and meet somebody besides drummers and--and Sol Higgins's son.
Selling coffins may be a good job, I don't say 'tain't; somebody's got to do it and we'll all have to invest in that kind of--er--furniture sometime or 'nother.

And Dan Higgins is a good enough boy, too.