We congratulate him; no one has worked harder for, or is better entitled to, a two hundred and fifty barrel well than Adnah.
"It seems impossible, aunty," declared the soft voice of Adnah.
The least movement might betray him, for the women sat quite near, and Adnah was facing him.
Adnah had gradually hitched closer to him, and now her hand, unreproved, stole affectionately to his shoulder.
You, Adnah, was too young to protect yourself from a stepmother, but we came to your rescue.
