But whenever he spoke he suffered correction on account of his English.
'More than his eating and his drinking, that child's father worrits about his learning to speak the language of a British gentleman,' Mrs.
Waddy exclaimed.

'Before that child your h's must be like the panting of an engine--to please his father.

He 'd stop me carrying the dinner-tray on meat-dish hot, and I'm to repeat what I said, to make sure the child haven't heard anything ungrammatical.

The child's nursemaid he'd lecture so, the poor girl would come down to me ready to bend double, like a bundle of nothing, his observations so took the pride out of her.

That's because he 's a father who knows his duty to the child:--"Child!" says he, "man, ma'am." It's just as you, John, when you sow your seed you think of your harvest.