'If you clergymen can cross-examine your Maker, I am not in that position.

Besides, they are all very good-looking girls who may find husbands, if they ever see a man.

So things might have been worse.' "Then she made remarks about the tea, for Uncle Samuel was a tea-merchant; and lastly that wicked Janey sent the footman to take the pug dog to walk past the butcher's shop where the fighting terrier lives.

You can guess the rest." "Was the pug killed ?" asked Anthony.
"No, though the poor thing came back in a bad way.

I never knew before that a pug's tail was so long when it is quite uncurled.