"I have enjoyed most heartily my journey among your beautiful hills." "Oh! you like the hills?
Excuse my dress.

I was half an hour late this morning.

When you lose half an hour in this house, you never can pick it up again, try how you may." (I soon discovered that Mrs.Finch was always losing half an hour out of her day, and that she never, by any chance, succeeded in ending it again, as she had just told me.) "I understand, madam.

The cares of a numerous family--" "Ah! that's just where it is." (This was a favorite phrase with Mrs.
Finch).

"There's Finch, he gets up in the morning and goes and works in the garden.