When Mr.Graves came down to see me, last week 'twas, I told him to say I'd be up pretty soon to look the ground over.

This is a pretty fine place the young folks have got here," he added, gazing admiringly at the paintings and bookcases.
"Yes," assented the lady, condescendingly.

"For an apartment it is really quite livable." "Livable!" Captain Elisha's astonishment got the better of his politeness for the moment.

"Um! Yes, I should say a body _might_ manage to worry along in it.

Was the place where they used to live any finer than this ?" "Certainly!" "You don't tell me! No wonder they talked about economi--Humph!" "What were you about to say, Mr.Warren ?" "Oh, nothin', nothin'! Talkin' to myself is a habit I've got.