My very first saying to you was, not to be too much okkipied with her.

Look at the pinafore on her! Lord be with me! If his lordship, as caught me, that day of this very same month fifty years, in the gooseberry bush--" "To be sure!" I said, knowing that story by heart, together with all its embellishments; "but things are altered since that day.

Nothing can be more to your credit, I am sure, than to be able to tell such a tale in the very place where it happened." "But, Miss--Miss Erma, I ain't begun to tell it." "Because you remember that I am acquainted with it.

A thing so remarkable is not to be forgotten.

Now let me ask you a question of importance; and I beg you, as an old servant of this family, to answer it carefully and truly.