But I ain't puttin' up there and I ain't puttin' up the money neither." "All right; keep it then--keep it and sleep on it, if you want to.

I can get along without it, I guess; or, if I can't, I can borrow it of somebody else." "Humph! You're pretty sassy, seems to me, for anybody that's askin' favors." "I'm not askin' favors.

I told you that when I first come to you.

What I asked was just business and nothin' else." "Is that so?
As I understand it you're askin' to have a mortgage renewed.

That may be business, or it may be a favor, 'cordin' to how you look at it." Thankful fought down her temper.