I remember in a fairy story there was a girl who whenever she spoke let fall pearls and diamonds from her lips; whenever those women open their mouths I expect icicles and daggers to drop out." "They are not so bad as that," Mabel laughed.

"I generally get on with them very well, and they are very kind in the parish; and altogether they are really not bad." "Then their looks belie them horribly," Ralph said.

"I suppose they don't like me; and that would be all well enough if I had done anything to offend them, but it was just as bad the first day I came.
I am sure Mr.Penfold does not like it.

I can see him fidget on his chair; and he talks away with me pretty well all the time we are at table, so as to make it less awkward, I suppose.

Well, I am stopping with him, and not with them, that's one thing; and it doesn't make much difference to me if they do choose to be disagreeable.