Sara hated patchwork above everything else , but Mrs. Eben was mistress up to a certain point . `` You 'll have to make that quilt , Sara Andrews . If you 're going to live out on those prairies , you 'll need piles of quilts , and you shall have them if I sew my fingers to the bone . But you 'll have to help make them . '' And Sara had to . When Mrs. Jonas came , Mrs. Eben sent Sara off to the post-office to get her out of the way . `` I suppose it 's true , this time ? '' said Mrs. Jonas . `` Yes , indeed , '' said Mrs. Eben briskly . `` Sara is set on it . There is no use trying to move her -- you know that -- so I 've just concluded to make the best of it . I 'm no turn-coat . Lige Baxter is Lige Baxter still , neither more nor less . I 've always said he 's a fine young man , and I say so still . After all , he and Sara wo n't be any poorer than Eben and I were when we started out . '' Mrs. Jonas heaved a sigh of relief . `` I 'm real glad you take that view of it , Louisa . I 'm not displeased , either , although Mrs. Harmon would take my head off if she heard me say so . I always liked Lige . But I must say I 'm amazed , too , after the way Sara used to rail at him . ''
`` Well , we might have expected it , '' said Mrs. XXXXX sagely .
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