Then aloud to Violet, as the governess left the room, "I say, Vi, does your mamma reprove you for saying right away ?" "I don't remember that I ever said it.

Mamma----" "Said it ?" interrupted Gertrude, with a twinkle of fun in her eye, "why don't you say 'used the expression'?
my dear," mimicking Miss Fisk's tones, "you should never condescend to make use of a sixpenny word, when a fifty cent one would express your sentiments fully as correctly, or perchance even more so." Vi could not help joining in the laugh with which Gertrude concluded, though feeling rather ashamed of herself, as she seemed to see the grave look of disapproval mamma would have given her if present.
"Oh, Gertrude," she said, "we oughtn't to----" "Yes, we ought," returned Gertrude, as they ran out of the room together; "mamma always laughs when I take off old finikin Fisk.

She wouldn't have me talk like her for the world.

Would your mamma wish you to ?" "No, but she never says----" "Right away?
No, of course not; she says 'immediately' or 'at once' or something that sounds nice.

Well, so will I when I'm grown up." Miss Fisk was on the porch taking an observation of the weather, the children crowding about her, and clamoring to be allowed to set out immediately for the grove.