I don't care WHAT the minister says, you can smoke here just as much as you want to! It must be pretty hard to live in a house where you can't enjoy yourself.

I shouldn't think it would seem like home.

A man like you NEEDS a good home.

Why, how I do run on!' "Oh, there ain't really nothin' the matter with the Widow Larkin--so fur's smartness is concerned, there ain't.
"And for five days more Kenelm ate his meals at Abbie's and smoked and was happy, happier'n he'd been for months.
"Meantime, Hannah and Etta was visitin' the President--that is to say, they was lookin' over the White House fence and sayin' 'My stars!' and 'Ain't it elegant!' Nights, when the sightseein' was over, what they did mostly was to gloat over how mean and jealous they'd make the untraveled common tribe at sewin' circle feel when they got back home.

They could just see themselves workin' on the log-cabin quilt for the next sale, and slingin' out little reminders like, 'Land sakes! What we're talkin' about reminds me of what Etta and me saw when we was in the Congressional Libr'ry.