She was reluctant to lend him the money

Mamma set up a card table, and one of the men said,You don't want a table for a picnic.She said,I do. I can't stand dirt. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.She had started saying that a lot, like a habit, and I did, too.

Having survived when many others died, she decided to make good use of her borrowed time.

[…] weakens the impression that only the female personal name is the source for this word type, by taking into account the wide-spread babble-word (Lallwort) bab, that might be connected to M. Engl. babe, New Engl. baby […]