Mamma has another merit, my dear.

She is old enough to understand me better than you do.

Go and fetch her." Minna left us, with her pretty little head carried high in the air.

"Mrs.
Wagner is a person entirely without sentiment!" she indignantly whispered to me in passing, when I opened the door for her.
"I declare that girl is absolute perfection!" my aunt exclaimed with enthusiasm.

"The one thing she wanted, as I thought, was spirit--and I find she has got it.