"But her own perversity runs in her own head. If you had been unkind she could have forgiven that; but as you were good-natured and she was cross, she can't forgive that." John Crumb again scratched his head, and felt that the depths of a woman's character required more gauging than he had yet given to it. "And to tell you the truth, my friend, I think that a little hardship up at Mrs. Pipkin's will do her good."

"If you had been unkind she could have forgiven it; but as you were good-natured and she was cross, she can't forgive that."
John Crumb scratched his head, and felt that the depths of a woman's character required more gauging than he had yet managed.
"To tell you the truth, my friend, I think that a little hardship at Mrs. Pipkin's will do her good."
