But he ain't your kind." "My kind! Uncle Shad, what in the world have I got to do with Dan Higgins and coffins--and all the rest of it ?" "Nothin', nothin' at all.

That's what I'm tryin' to tell you if you'll give me a chance.

Mary-'Gusta, your Uncle Zoeth and I have decided that you must go to school up to Boston, at the Misses Cabot's school there.
You'll board along with that Mrs.Wyeth, the one we met today.

She's a good woman, I cal'late, though she is so everlastin' straight up and down.

You'll board there and you'll go to school to those Cabot women.
And--" But Mary-'Gusta interrupted.