Do you understand ?" "Perfectly, dear, you leave no room for misconception.

By all means let him live with us--if he can get on with my father," he added meaningly.
"Ah!" she replied, "I never thought of that.

Also I should not have spoken so roughly, but I have had such a shock that I feel inclined to treat you like--like--a toad under a harrow.

So please be sympathetic, and don't misunderstand me, or I don't know what I shall say." Then by way of making amends, Mary put her arms round his neck and gave him a kiss "all of her own accord," saying, "Morris, I am afraid--I am afraid.
I feel as if our good time was done." After this the servant came to say that she might go up to her father's room, and that scene of our drama was at an end.
Mr.Porson owned a villa at Beaulieu, in the south of France, which he had built many years before as a winter house for his wife, whose chest was weak.

Here he was in the habit of spending the spring months, more, perhaps, because of the associations which the place possessed for him than of any affection for foreign lands.