That was chiefly how we made the acquaintance of the Malt party.

You can't very well sit out in the dark in a foreign capital with a family from your own State and not get to know them.

Besides poppa never could overcome his feeling of indebtedness to Mr.Malt.They were taking Emmeline abroad for her health.

She was the popular thirteen-year-old only child of American families, and she certainly was thin.

I remember being pleased, sometimes, considering her in her typical capacity, that I once had a little brother, though he died before I was born.
The two gentlemen were smoking; we could see nothing but the ends of their cigars glowing in their immediate vicinity.