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"She is very strange in her ways, living up there by herself, and such things please her," said Susan. "She's a well-favoured maid enough," said Humphrey the furze-cutter, "especially when she's got one of her dandy gowns on." "That's true," said Fairway. "Well, let her bonfire burn an't will. Ours is well-nigh out by the look o't."
Who are you, to sit in judgment upon us?" "I am the humblest of His servants," replied Susan Stoddard, and there was no shadow of hypocrisy in her tones. She went on, almost sorrowfully: "But we are sent to serve and obey. 'Keep ye separate and apart from the children of this world, is His commandment, and I have no choice but to obey.
Weariness is one of the former things!" A whimsical humor stirred the words. "Sometimes the former things get t' be dreadful foolish day after day." "Let me carry you to the bedroom, Susan." Janet had assumed this duty in order to spare David, the nights he must go up aloft. The thin, light body was no burden to the sturdy girl. "There, Susan, and see the storm is past!"
Don't you tell me one Britisher isn't a match for ten foreigners. I could polish off a dozen of 'em myself with both hands tied behind my back!" "I am told," said Susan, "that old Mr. Pryor does not believe in this war. I am told that he says England went into it just because she was jealous of Germany and that she did not really care in the least what happened to Belgium."
And it doesn't really matter." "I've been thinking," said Susan. "I understand a great many things I didn't know I'd noticed ever since I was a baby. But what I don't understand " She drew a long breath, a cautious breath, as if there were danger of awakening a pain. "What I don't understand is why. And you must tell me all about it. . . . Was my mother bad?"
When occasionally during her lifetime it was called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment by those who wished to honor her devotion to the cause, she protested, meticulously giving Elizabeth Cady Stanton credit for making the first public demand for woman suffrage in 1848. She also made it clear that although she worked for the amendment long and hard, she did not draft it.
It's a lovely world, isn't it?" "If I had made it," laughed Susan, "I'd not own up to the fact." She laughed; but she was seeing the old women of the slums was seeing them as one sees in the magic mirror the vision of one's future self. And on the way home she said to herself, "It was a good thing that I was arrested today. It reminded me. It warned me.
Here, Bill! I'll take his head you take his feet. We'll carry him between us like a feather. Mat. O Susan! do hold your tongue. Sus. It's my only weapon, my dear. If I was a man see if I'd talk then. James. It's a providence you ain't a man, young woman! Sus. Right you are! Them's my werry motives. I ain't a makin' of no complaint on that score, young Plush!
He said nothing, his stick now striking on the boards, now sinking into earth, and gazed down at Susan, her face hid by the rim of her bonnet. This companionship was the best, all, that life had to offer. He felt no need to importune her about the future, their marriage; curiously it seemed as though they had been married, and were walking in the security, the peace, of a valid and enduring bond.
Stanton in November 1883, she had their promise of cooperation. The newspapers welcomed her home. "Susan B. Anthony is back from Europe," announced the Cleveland Leader, "and is here for a winter's fight on behalf of woman suffrage. She seems remarkably well, and has gained fifteen pounds since she left last spring. She is sixty-three, but looks just the same as twenty years ago.
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