Belittle your own belongings!" Mr Murchison smiled in amused tolerance.

"They've always got you to blow their trumpet, Mother," he replied.
"And more than me.

You ought to hear Dr Drummond about Lorne! He says that if the English Government starts that line of boats to Halifax the country will owe it to him, much more than to Cruickshank, or anybody else." "Dr Drummond likes to talk," said John Murchison.
"Lorne's keeping his end up all right," remarked Stella, jumping off her bicycle in time to hear what her mother said.

"It's great, that old Wallingham asking him to dinner.

And haven't I just been spreading it!" "Where have you been, Stella ?" asked Mrs Murchison.
"Oh, only over to the Milburns'.