I don't think she'd marry anybody." "Well, I hope not.

But she seems to me to be exactly cut out for an old maid;--to be Aunt Lucy for ever and ever to your bairns." "And so she shall, with all my heart.

But I don't think she will, very long.

I have no doubt she will be hard to please; but if I were a man I should fall in love with her at once.

Did you ever observe her teeth, Mark ?" "I don't think I ever did." "You wouldn't know whether any one had a tooth in their head, I believe." "No one except you, my dear; and I know all yours by heart." "You are a goose." "And a very sleepy one; so, if you please, I'll go to roost." And thus there was nothing more said about Lucy's beauty on that occasion.
For the first two days Mrs.Robarts did not make much of her sister-in-law.