I don't see why the lady shouldn't be Mrs.
Chitakov, if there is such a lady." "Papa, don't bamboozle her," said his daughter.
"But," continued the attorney, "why shouldn't the lady have been his wife?
Don't married ladies wear little fluffy fur ornaments ?" "I wish, John, you wouldn't talk to the girls in that strain," said their mother.

"It really isn't becoming." "To suggest that the lady was the gentleman's wife ?" "But I was going to say," continued Amelia, "that as the prince drove by he kissed his hand--he did, indeed.

And Sophy and I were walking along as demurely as possible.

I never was so knocked of a heap in all my life." "He did," said Sophy.

"It's the most impertinent thing I ever heard.