1 Mattie had begged him to go with her but he had refused.
2 She's done her best for you and she's got no place to go to.
3 Ethan, supposing the discussion to be over, had turned to go down to supper.
4 "I'd like to go over things with you first," Zeena continued in an unperturbed voice.
5 "I guess I won't come up yet awhile," he said, turning as if to go back to the kitchen.
6 "I've a good mind to go and hunt up those stomach powders I got last year over in Springfield," she continued.
7 He told Jotham to go out and harness up the greys, and for a moment he and Mattie had the kitchen to themselves.
8 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.
9 I used to go a good deal after the accident, when I was first married; but after awhile I got to think it made 'em feel worse to see us.'
10 Mrs. Hale answered simply: "There was nowhere else for her to go;" and my heart tightened at the thought of the hard compulsions of the poor.
11 Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn't any other place to go to; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive.
12 The mere fact of obeying her orders, of feeling free to go about his business again and talk with other men, restored his shaken balance and magnified his sense of what he owed her.
13 On the way over to the wood-lot one of the greys slipped on a glare of ice and cut his knee; and when they got him up again Jotham had to go back to the barn for a strip of rag to bind the cut.
14 After the funeral, when he saw her preparing to go away, he was seized with an unreasoning dread of being left alone on the farm; and before he knew what he was doing he had asked her to stay there with him.
15 "I've got my shooting pains so bad that I'm going over to Bettsbridge to spend the night with Aunt Martha Pierce and see that new doctor," she answered in a matter-of-fact tone, as if she had said she was going into the store-room to take a look at the preserves, or up to the attic to go over the blankets.