It's terrible to watch the ships in bad weather, but for our purpose--I mean Mr.Fullerton's purpose--we might as well have been looking at Stanfield's pictures." "Never mind.
You fahscinate your uncle, Miss Dearsley, and we'll show you what we can do.

What do you think, Miss Ranken ?" Miss Lena Ranken, Mr.Blair's niece, creased her brow in pert little wrinkles: "I'm not sure that I know anything; Marion there studies questions of all sorts, but an ordinary girl has to do without knowledge.

I know that when auntie and I were wishing you would drop us over into the water, I thought of the men who use the same damp bed for two months instead of having changes and all that." "What is your idea now, Ferrier, about the business?
I'm not asking you for a gratis lecture, but I want to see how far you would go." "Well, frankly, at present I think that Fullerton's the best guide for all of us.

I should be a mock-modest puppy if I pretended not to know a good deal about books, because books are my stock-in-trade; but I've just seen a new corner of life, and I've learned how little I really know.

Head is all well in its way; a good head may administer, but great thoughts spring from the heart." "Very good, Professor.