"
"Don't worry about her, Margaret. If she has to take bitter medicine,
she'll do it an' smack her mouth."
"But, Jasper, he's the son of a United States Jedge."
"Wall, but thar ain't no objection to that, is there?"
"Oh, how tormentin' a man kin be when he tries."
"Oh, how tormentin' a woman kin be when she don't try."
"Did anybody ever hear the like? Jasper, don't you see how much Lou is a
thinkin' of him? Air you so blind that you can't see that? An' you know
that the app'intment of Peters mout spile it all."
The old man shrugged. "Yes, mout spile it all fur Peters. Let me tell
you suthin'. I ain't a stairrin' round to see how much one pusson thinks
of another, an' I don't know how much she keers fur that young feller,
but I do know that she is worthy of any man that ever trod shoe luther.
We give her all the freedom a girl wants, an' that man ain't a livin'
that could turn that freedom into shame. If she falls in love with him,
she will love him like a Starbuck--with all her soul. An' if he don't
love her, she'll be silent like a Starbuck.
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