I expect Tomaso is at the bottom of that idea of yours, Aunt Caroline.

He would naturally give the reporters that view." Mrs.Portheris listened with a tolerance as badly put on as any garment she was wearing.

"I do not usually make assertions," she said when poppa had finished, "without being convinced of the facts," and I became aware for the first time that her upper lip wore a slight moustache.
"Well, you'll excuse me, Aunt Caroline----" "All my life I have heard of the Leaning Tower of Pisa as a feat of architecture," replied his Aunt Caroline firmly.

"I do not propose to have that view disturbed now." "Perhaps it _was_ so, my dear love," put in momma deprecatingly, and Mr.
Dod, with a frenzied wink at poppa, called his attention to the ridiculous Pisan habit of putting immovable fringed carriage-tops on cabs.
"It undoubtedly was," said Mrs.Portheris, with an embattled front.
"But--Great Scott, aunt!" exclaimed poppa, recklessly, "think what this place was like--all marsh, with the sea right alongside; not four miles off as it is now.

Why, you couldn't base so much as a calculation on it!" "I must say," said Mrs.Portheris in severe surprise, "I knew that America had made great advances in the world of invention, but I did not expect to find what looks much like jealousy of the achievements of an older civilisation." The Senator looked at his aunt, then he put his hat further back on his head and cleared his throat.