For a moment I was sorry for the Misses Bingham, who were absorbing nothing but dust; but, as momma said, they looked very well informed.
It must be admitted that we were a little shy with the guide--we let him bully us.

As poppa said, he was certainly well up in his subject, but that was no reason why he should have treated us as if we had all come from St.Paul or Kansas City.

There was a condescension about him that was not explained by the state of his linen, and a familiarity that I had always supposed confined exclusively to the British aristocracy among themselves.

He had a red face and a blue eye, with which he looked down on us with scarcely concealed contempt, and he was marvellously agile, distributing his information as open street-car conductors collect fares.
"They seem extremely careful of their herbage in this town," remarked the serious man, and we noticed that it was so.

Precautions were taken in wire that would have dissuaded a grasshopper from venturing on it.