"Nearly every one in this world talks a good deal about every one else whom they know by sight.

You really can't imagine how much good it does me to see you looking so well and pretty.

Keep right on looking so, won't you?
The girls of to-day must be our women a few years hence; that's what I keep impressing upon my daughter day by day,--don't I, dear." "Indeed you do, mother." Eleanor said it with a look at Jane which was almost a signal for sympathy: the cobbler's daughter was greatly mystified by it.
"I don't see," said Jane, after standing awkwardly for a moment in meditation, "how a girl's goin' to be much of a woman that amounts to anything one of these days if she's nothin' to do now but dirty work at a hotel." "Maybe she could change her work," suggested the lady.
Jane's lips parted into some hard and ugly lines, and she replied,-- "Some things is easier sayin' than doin'." "Should you like a different position ?" asked Mrs.Prency.

"I'm sure it could be had if people knew you wanted it.

For instance, I need some one every day for weeks to come to help my daughter and me with our sewing and fitting.