It doesn't carry me anywhere except into trouble.
When I think of all the pains I've taken to learn how to talk like the dictionary! Why, nobody talks like the dictionary any longer! They all talk slang, every one of them--only they don't talk the kind that Julius Gershom and all these politicians do.

If you could have seen Mrs.
Berkeley's face when I told her I'd had a 'grand' time to-night--she looked exactly like a frozen fish--though just the moment before Mr.
Culpeper had called somebody a 'rotter'.

I heard him." The Governor dismissed it all with a wave of his hand.

"Trifles, trifles," was his only comment.
The car had entered the Square, and in a moment it was passing the Washington statue and the Capitol building.

Until it stopped before the steps of the mansion, Patty did not reply; then springing up with a flutter of her scarlet skirt, she exclaimed airily, "But I am a trifle, too, Father!" As he held out his hand from the ground, Vetch looked at her with an expression in which pride and pity were strangely mingled.