But now women began to aspire to independence in respect to property, and, getting quit of the guardianship of their -agnati- by evasive lawyers' expedients particularly through mock marriagesthey took the management of their property into their own hands, or, in the event of being married, sought by means not much better to withdraw themselves from the marital power, which under the strict letter of the law was necessary.

He was very respectful and gentle in alluding to the battle, and said, ingenuously, pointing to the plateau jutting out from the Bull Run Mountains: "At two o'clock on Sunday we would have cried quits to McDowell to hold his ground and let us alone.

"Then all ends wellall quits!

Balance these against my Highlanders, and cross quits.

And when your wife came flaunting down here with Poindexter before she'd quite got quit of you, I reckon they began to see the whole little game.

At the utmost they had "seed him a good deal a while ago, but he'd sorter quit riding up this-a-way of late."

Now a Christian body, if they take reasonable care, can walk quit of 'em; and if they have any haunts in lonesome and doleful places, if one puts up a cross or a shrine, they know they have to go.