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The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery

"'Folks should always sing at their work', he insisted...'Not always, retorted Valancy.  'Fancy a butcher singing at his work.  Or an undertaker.'"  p. 126

"'People who don't like cats,' said Valancy, attacking her dessert with a relish,'always seem to think that there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.'"  p. 100

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