Quotes About Country-town

Jennie was a soprano. Not a regular soprano, but a country-town soprano, of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral. Her voice came from a point about two inches above the right eye.

To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! What could she mean by it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.