Why, he did n't make any more of her than if she'd been a tabby-cat.

She believed some of these ministers thought women's souls dried up like peas in a pod by the time they was forty year old; anyhow, they did n't seem to care any great about 'em, except while they was green and tender.

It was all Miss Se-usan, Miss Se-usan, Miss Se-usan, my dear! but as for her, she might jest as well have gone with her apron on, for any notice he took of her.

She did n't care, she was n't goin' to be left out when there was talkin' goin' on, anyhow.
Susan Posey, on her part, said she did n't like him a bit.

He looked so sweet at her, and held his head on one side,--law! just as if he had been a young beau! And,--don't tell,--but he whispered that he wished the next time I came I wouldn't bring that Hopkins woman! It would not be fair to repeat what the minister said to himself; but we may own as much as this, that, if worthy Mrs.Hopkins had heard it, she would have treated him to a string of adjectives which would have greatly enlarged his conceptions of the female vocabulary..