It's real handy to say that when I don't want to take her with me.

I'm a nervous, excitable child myself; Mrs.Hobbs says so.

That's why I've hardly ever been anywhere before, I guess." She insisted upon wiping the dishes while Isaiah washed them.

Also, she reminded him that the tablecloth which had been so severely criticized the previous evening had not as yet been changed.

The steward was inclined to treat the matter lightly.
"Never mind if 'tain't," he said.