Whatever happens, I mean to have no presences in my life.

Her very words had a sort of distinctness which is sometimes produced by sharp, bodily pain.

To Mrs.
Seal's secret jubilation the rule which forbade discussion of shop at tea-time was overlooked.

Mary and Mr.Clacton argued with a cogency and a ferocity which made the little woman feel that something very important--she hardly knew what--was taking place.

She became much excited; one crucifix became entangled with another, and she dug a considerable hole in the table with the point of her pencil in order to emphasize the most striking heads of the discourse; and how any combination of Cabinet Ministers could resist such discourse she really did not know.
She could hardly bring herself to remember her own private instrument of justice--the typewriter.