Matilda slipped in and the door was softly closed upon her back.
"Here's some food--just what I could grab in a second--I didn't dare take time to choose." Matilda held out a bundle wrapped in a newspaper.

"Take it, ma'am.

I don't dare stay here a second." But Mrs.De Peyster caught her arm.
"How did they take my going ?" "Mr.Jack thought home was really the best place for my sister, if she was sick, ma'am.

And Mary was awfully kind and asked me all sorts of questions--which--which I found it awfully hard to answer, ma'am,--and she is going to send you the book you didn't finish.

And Mr.Pyecroft got me off into a corner and said, so we'd tried to give him the slip again." "What is he going to do ?" "He said he was safe here, under Judge Harvey's protection.