And Abbie's supper didn't seem so good to him that night, and her cigars--bein' five centers--wa'n't in it with that Washington box.
"Hannah didn't have dinner the next day until two o'clock, but 'twas worth waitin' for.

Turkey was twenty-three cents a pound, but she had one, and plum puddin', too.

She kept pressin' Kenelm to have a little more, so 'twas after three when they got up from the table.
"'Twas a rainy, drizzly afternoon and the stove felt mighty homey and cozy.

So did the big rocker that Hannah transplanted from the parlor to the settin'-room.

That chair had been a kind of sacred throne afore, and to set in it had been sort of sacrilegious, but there 'twas, and Kenelm didn't object.