If I had fifty children, I believe I should want them all girls." "Besides, dear Mrs.Oliver," continued Edgar, after an awkward pause, "I don't think you are strong enough to have me here.

I believe you 're only proposing it for my good.

You know that I 'm in a forlorn students' boarding-house, and you are anxious to give me 'all the comforts of a home' for my blessed mother's sake, regardless of your own discomforts." "Come here a moment and sit beside me on Polly's footstool.

You were nearly three years old when Polly was born.

You were all staying with me that summer.