"I don't want neither," she said. "I'd sooner far we kept at a steady jog-trot and got closer to each other every year we lived, and saw with the same eyes, and felt with one heart."
"Things balance out pretty fair. That sort be comfortable, but 'tis terrible tame work. If you don't fall out, you never make it up, and my experience of females is that almost the best part of the fun with 'em is making it up. They like it as much as we do too."
"Marriage is different."
"Nought keeps the air of marriage sweeter than a good healthy breeze now and again."
"You talk as one outside. You know nothing at all about it!"
"I'll kiss you in a minute--and not on the hand neither!" he laughed. "And 'twill be for punishment, not payment, if you can say such hard things to me. No, I'm not married, worse luck; but you oughtn't to throw it in my face like that, for 'tis no fault of mine, I'm sure."
"I'd be happier than any woman ever was on Dartmoor, I do think, if she'd take you."
"You've done all you could--so's David. But there's no more in your power. If I can't rise to the skill to win her, then so much the worse for me."
"Come and do a kind thing," she said suddenly. "Come and explain to my dear mother this wonder you've found out. Nobody but you ever would have been so clever as to do it."
"And may I come home and have supper with you and Rhoda afterwards as a reward?"