It took me the longest time to get them out of the house!" "Mrs.Snow! my dear! you forget that we have a stranger present." "Well, I don't forget those strangers, anyway!" The three Misses Snow tittered, and looked at one another, but were immediately solemnized by a glance from their father.
Mrs.Snow, having found her tongue--a characteristically lively and emphatic one--went on to say:-- "I think Miss Butterworth is right.

It's a burning shame, and you ought to go to the meeting to-morrow, and put it down." "Easily said, my dear," responded Mr.Snow, "but you forget that Mr.
Belcher is Buffum's friend, and that it is impossible to carry any measure against him in Sevenoaks.

I grant that it ought not to be so.

I wish it were otherwise; but we must take things as they air." "To take things as they air," was a cardinal aphorism in Mr.Snow's budget of wisdom.

It was a good starting-point for any range of reasoning, and exceedingly useful to a man of limited intellect and little moral courage.