With management and care, we could have stayed in the old house, I believe, and kept up appearances, at least.

What's the use of advertising that we're broke ?" "But, Steve, you know Mr.Graves said--" "Oh, yes, I know.

You swallowed every word Graves said, Caro, as if he was the whole book of Proverbs.

By George, _I_ don't; I'm from Missouri." Mr.Warren, being in the Sophomore class at Yale, was of the age when one is constitutionally "from Missouri." Probably King Solomon, at sixty, had doubts concerning the scope and depth of his wisdom; at eighteen he would have admitted its all-embracing infallibility without a blush.
"I tell you," continued Stephen, "there's no sense in it, Sis.

You and I know plenty of people whose incomes are no larger than ours.