To facilitate enunciation he placed a "g" before the letters which it was hard for him to pronounce.

We were talking of the many sad and sudden deaths from pneumonia, bronchitis, etc., during the recent spring season, and then of the insincerity of poets who sighed for death and longed for a summons to depart.

He said in his deliciously slow and stumbling manner: "I don't want the ger-pneu-m-mon-ia.

I'm in no ger-hurry to ger-go." Mrs.Webb's drawing-rooms were filled with valuable pictures and bronzes, and her Thursday Evenings at home were a delight to many.
How little we sometimes know of the real spirit and the inner life of some noble man or woman.

Mrs.Hermann was a remarkable instance of this.