of our poor mother - and of Thomas
Hutter."

"Speak kindly then, sister, for you can't be quite certain that
 don't both hear and see.  If father wasn't father, he was
good to us, and gave us food and shelter.  We can't put any stones
over their graves, here in the water, to tell people all this, and
so we ought to say it with our tongues."

"They will  little for that, girl.  'Tis a great 
to know, Hetty, that if mother ever did commit any heavy fault when
young, she lived sincerely to repent of it; no doubt her sins were
forgiven her."

"Tisn't right, Judith, for children to talk of their parents'
sins.  We had better talk of our own."

"Talk of your sins, Hetty!  - If there ever was a creature on earth
without sin, it is you!  I wordnetdesire I could say, or think the same of
myself; but we shall see.  No one knows what changes  for
a good husband can make in a woman's .  I don't think, child,
I have even now the same wordnetdesire for finery I once had."

"It would be a ,