1 You're a bad girl, Mattie Silver, and I always known it.
2 Zeena, I've done all I could for you, and I don't see as it's been any use.
3 She and I were great friends, and she was to have been my bridesmaid in the spring.
4 Mrs. Hale paused a moment, and I remained silent, plunged in the vision of what her words evoked.
5 Everybody said I was lucky to get a girl to come away out here, and I agreed to give her a dollar extry to make sure.
6 He's that proud he don't even like his oldest friends to go there; and I don't know as any do, any more, except myself and the doctor.
7 I always tell Mr. Hale I don't know what she'd 'a' done if she hadn't 'a' had you to look after her; and I used to say the same thing 'bout your mother.'
8 Old Mrs. Varnum, by this time, had gone up to bed, and her daughter and I were sitting alone, after supper, in the austere seclusion of the horse-hair parlour.
9 Mrs. Hale glanced at me tentatively, as though trying to see how much footing my conjectures gave her; and I guessed that if she had kept silence till now it was because she had been waiting, through all the years, for some one who should see what she alone had seen.