`` Just think , Louisa , if it had n't been for that old quarrel I might be Mrs. Peter Wright at this very moment , mother to the aforesaid supposed half dozen , and vexing my soul over Peter 's meals and socks and cows . '' `` I guess you are better off as you are , '' said Louisa . `` Oh , I do n't know . '' Nancy looked up at the white house on the hill again . `` I have an awfully good time out of life , but it does n't seem to satisfy , somehow . To be candid -- and oh , Louisa , candour is a rare thing among women when it comes to talking of the men -- I believe I 'd rather be cooking Peter 's meals and dusting his house . I would n't mind his bad grammar now . I 've learned one or two valuable little things out yonder , and one is that it does n't matter if a man 's grammar is askew , so long as he does n't swear at you . By the way , is Peter as ungrammatical as ever ? '' `` I -- I do n't know , '' said Louisa helplessly . `` I never knew he WAS ungrammatical . '' `` Does he still say , ' I seen , ' and ` them things ' ? '' demanded Nancy . `` I never noticed , '' confessed Louisa . `` Enviable Louisa ! Would that I had been born with that blessed faculty of never noticing ! It stands a woman in better stead than beauty or brains . I used to notice Peter 's mistakes . When he said ' I seen , ' it jarred on me in my salad days . I tried , oh , so tactfully , to reform him in that respect .
Peter did n't like being reformed -- the Wrights always had a fairly good opinion XXXXX themselves , you know .
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