Good gracious, Martha, they're taking a sail with them! Now I do call that tempting Providence.

That young man has a very elegant figure, Martha, but mark my words he knows nothing at all about the management of a boat.

The girls know still less." "Put down your spy-glass for a moment, and let me speak to you, Maria," exclaimed Mrs.Butler in an exasperated voice.

"I never knew such a tongue as yours for clap, clap, clapping.

Did you say those two Bertram girls were going out alone with a _man_! Well, I have known what to think for some time! Alone on the water with a _young man_.