All them things together are enough to spoil 'most any girl, but they haven't spoiled her.

She's come home here not a mite stuck-up, not flirty nor silly nor top-lofty, but just as sensible and capable and common-folksy as ever she was, and that's sayin' somethin'.

If our Rena turns out to be the girl Mary-'Gusta Lathrop is I WILL be proud of her, and don't you forget it!" Which terminated conversation in the Mullet family for that evening.
But if the few, like Mrs.Mullet, were inclined to criticize, the many, like her husband, united in declaring Mary to be "all right." And her rearranging and displaying of the Christmas goods helped her and her uncles to dispose of them.

In fact, for the three days before Christmas it became necessary to call in the services of Annabel as assistant saleslady.

The store was crowded, particularly in the evenings, and Zoeth and Captain Shad experienced for the first time in months the sensation of being the heads of a prosperous business.
"Looks good to see so many young folks in here, don't it, Zoeth ?" observed the Captain.