Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

“ Get to work an' we'll unload the burros."
"Come away from that window, Jack, an' don't take no notice of her," adjured Mrs. Evans, who had watched with growing uneasiness Nitschkan's increasing interest in the unpacking going on without.
But he was deaf to admonitions. "Lord! she's got a good bear's skin, an' some mighty nice lookin' venison."
"Ain't that jus' like a man, an' after all we done fer him, too!" Mrs. Thomas sunk her voice to a disgusted whisper. "We jus' got to get him away from there."
"Jack, remember what you been through," she pleaded, her hand upon his arm. ”

“ Evans's brow; but her eyes never wavered from the other woman's face.
"I couldn't stand your kids, Sadie Nitschkan; two months an' more of 'em has drove me wild!"
"My kids!" with infinite surprise. "Why, they's no better behaved young ones anywhere."
Mrs. Thomas suddenly ceased her convulsive sobbing. "Supposin', Sadie Nitschkan," she cried. "Supposin' you had to look after Mis' Evans's' or Mis' Landvetter's kids fer two or three months?" ”

“ It was the only time Frances had ever seen the assured Mrs. Evans in the least embarrassed. "Missioner," even in' the dim light her cold little face showed agitation. "Missioner, I wasn't goin' to say a word to you, an' I made Marthy promise not to; but there's a good deal of talk—an' the bettin' stands even on you an' the English girl. You know the folks at Garvin's went away to-day; but some of the boys is bettin' that Walt won't let her stay long."
"Betting! On me! And Miss Sourrier?" Frances faltered, throwing back one arm and clutching the rail for support. ”

“ Sadie Nitschkan's comin' home to-morrow. Some campers that's just got in brought the word to Jack."
"It's been six weeks an' more since Jack wrote her, commandin' her to come back the minute she got the letter, an' she ain't paid no more attention to it than if he was catnip," announced Mrs. Thomas.
"Well, she's goin' to get her lesson now," Mrs. Evans made the affirmation complacently. "It don't always do to go up against a husband when his blood's up."
"If Jack'll only stay firm." Mrs. Thomas's tone seemed to imply a pessimistic doubt of all men. ”

“ All our lives long, us women have been taught that when things bothered us too much, we could go to a man in a black coat an' a white choker, an' perhaps, a good many of us found out that was all there was to his spirituality. ”

“ Then he'd swell out his chest, an' talk pious to you down in his throat, an' you usual went home feelin' like there was no comfort nowheres, 'cause 'course you'd been taught to believe that God's jus' a bigger man, an' you felt sore at your heart an' like you wanted to kick yourself, that is, if you was strong. ”