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 "You judge her too harshly. She used to be the light of the house."

"I should call her the spite of the house from the way she acts sometimes, but then she has always treated me well."

"She is walking through the shadows now."

"I should think she was walkin' through shadders, and has a mighty likin' for 'em too. I should think she'd be afraid of ghosts in the way she treats Mr. Livingston. Give her as much to do as I have and she wouldn't have no time to be huntin' up shadders."

"Why, how does she treat him? I've wondered why he doesn't come here now."

"I guess he won't come here again, behave as she did when he asked her to go to ride. I'd a sent her 'tother side the moon chasin' after the stars."

"I can't believe that. He will come to see Walter. Did he really invite her to ride?"

"Sartain. He had the handsomest hoss and shay you ever see, and he looked so happy and smilin' I could 'a rid to heaven on his smile, and lived on the light of his eyes when I got there. You see I mistrusted what was a foot when I went to the door and see how spruce he looked, and see the hoss and team out at the gate. So thinks I to myself I'm goin' to see how this affair comes out. Well, so I went up to call Miss Rosalind, and bless my stars, how she looked! I thought she must be dressed up to go out washin'. It was easy enough to change her frock you know, but her hair was in the same plight, and it would take longer to smooth out her curls.