There are no fashionable girls here yet.

Till the terrace is built, and the esplanade--" "There shall be neither terrace nor esplanade if the Major is to do such things upon them." "I am sure that he never would," I replied; "it was only their dresses that he liked at all, and that very, to my mind, extraordinary style, as well as unbecoming.

You know what I mean, Mrs.Hockin, that wonderful--what shall I call it ?--way of looping up." "Call me 'Aunt Mary,' my dear, as you did when the waves were so dreadful.

You mean that hideous Mexican poncho, as they called it, stuck up here, and going down there.

Erema, what observation you have! Nothing ever seems to escape you.