"If you feel that, why don't you stand up before the people and tell 'em?"
"There's my children."
"Be they more to you than he was?"
"No; but they are next."
"I hate deceit. Who'll think the worse of them?"
"Who won't?"
"None that are worth considering."
"You know very little about the world, for all that you are deep as the dark and can find out things hidden. What about my darters? No, it wouldn't be a fair thing to let it out."
"I hold it very important."
"It shan't be, I tell you. You can't do it; you never would."