"That brindled ox,
old Logger, is not more willing to come into his yoke, than is the
four-year-old to yield her milk."
"The creature has been getting kind, since you taught the manner to tame
its humor," returned the dairy girl, in a voice that, spite of every
effort of maiden pride, betrayed something of the flurry of her spirits,
while she plied her light task with violent industry.
"Umph! I hope some other of my teachings may be as well remembered; but
thou art quick at the trick of learning, Faith, as is plain by the ready
manner in which thou hast so shortly got the habit of discourse with a man
as nimble-tongued as yon riding reprobate from over sea."
"I hope that civil listening is no proof of unseemly discourse on the part
of one who hath been trained in modesty of speech, Eben Dudley. Thou hast
often said, it was the bounden duty of her who was spoken to, to give ear,
lest some might say she was of scornful mind, and her name for pride be
better earned than that for good-nature."
"I see that more of my lessons than I had hoped are still in thy keeping.
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