Besides, as Antoinette informs me, the poor lamb eats meat with her fingers, after the fashion of the East.

I know what that is, having once been present at an Egyptian dinner-party in Cairo, and pulled reeking lumps of flesh out of the leg of mutton.

Ugh! But as she has probably not sat down to a meal with a man in her life, her banishment from my table will not hurt her feelings.

She must, however, be trained in Christian table-manners, as well as in aesthetics; also in a great many other things.
Mrs.McMurray arrived with a tape-measure, a pencil, and a notebook.
"First," she announced, "I will measure her all over.

Then I will go out and procure her a set of out-door garments, and tomorrow we will spend the whole livelong day in the shops.