"some Say"

1896. Prolific writer of children's books, Richards is credited with pioneering American writing of nonsense verses for children, but she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe, the social reformer who wrote the words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The book begins: And some say, she expects to get him married to Rose Ellen before the year's out! I want to know if she does! Her sister married a minister, and her father was a deacon, so mebbe she thinks