At breakfast it stole a poached egg and daubed it all over the door handle.

Ida calls these outrages amusing tricks." "Oh, all will come right," said the widow reassuringly.
"And Clara is as bad, Clara who used to be so good and sweet, the very image of her poor mother.

She insists upon this preposterous scheme of being a pilot, and will talk of nothing but revolving lights and hidden rocks, and codes of signals, and nonsense of the kind." "But why preposterous ?" asked his companion.

"What nobler occupation can there be than that of stimulating commerce, and aiding the mariner to steer safely into port?
I should think your daughter admirably adapted for such duties." "Then I must beg to differ from you, madam." "Still, you are inconsistent." "Excuse me, madam, I do not see the matter in the same light.

And I should be obliged to you if you would use your influence with my daughter to dissuade her." "You wish to make me inconsistent too." "Then you refuse ?" "I am afraid that I cannot interfere." The Doctor was very angry.