Fancy his trying to convert us; he'll try to convert you next, if you don't mind!" The girl paid no heed to the banter.

She went on as if in a reverie.
"It is enough to bring a judgment on a nation, all the idle women and idle men.

Mamma told me that a brewer's wife paid two thousand pounds for flowers in one month.

Why cannot you speak to women ?" "We mustn't blame the poor ladies," said Fullerton: "how could they know?
Plenty of people told them about Timbuctoo, and Jerusalem, and Madagascar, and North and South America, but this region's just a trifle out of the way.

A lady may easily sign a cheque or pack a missionary's medicine-chest, but she could not come out here among dangers and filth and discomfort, and the men ashore are not much pluckier.