And I never can get you to reprove her." "It would be as much as my place is worth, as the maids say when imagined to have stolen sugar.

And I must not read this letter so loud as the Lessons, unless you wish Lizzie to hear every word, for she has all her mother's quick senses.

There is not much of it, and the scrawl seems hasty.

We might have had more for three and fourpence.

But I am not the one to grumble about bad measure--as the boy said about old Busby.