I hope you do not let him _snuff_ so much as he did.

He had a sister, poor thing, who died early.

She was remarkably clever, and well read, and most intelligent, but was always uncommonly _silly_[70] In the autumn of '40 she had a _sair host_, and was aye _speaking through a cold_, and at dinner never did more than to _sup a few family broth_.

I am afraid she did not _change her feet_ when she came in from the wet one evening.

I never _let on_ that I observed anything to be wrong; but I remember asking her to come and _sit upon_ the fire.