Roscoe has built straight across the street from us, you know.

Honestly, Sibyl makes me think of a snake, sometimes--the way she pulls the wool over people's eyes! She honeys up to papa and gets anything in the world she wants out of him, and then makes fun of him behind his back--yes, and to his face, but HE can't see it! She got him to give her a twelve-thousand-dollar porch for their house after it was--" "Good heavens!" said Bibbs, staring ahead as they reached the corner and the car swung to the right, following a bend in the street.

"Is that the New House ?" "Yes.

What do you think of it ?" "Well," he drawled, "I'm pretty sure the sanitarium's about half a size bigger; I can't be certain till I measure." And a moment later, as they entered the driveway, he added, seriously: "But it's beautiful!".