"I am an inveterate reader.

Besides, I know several famous editors, and perhaps I could help you." "That would be jolly." "And you are writing a story, and never told us about it!" "It never occurred to me to tell you.

I shall be very glad to go to the theater with you and Mrs.Killigrew." Kitty tucked the romance under her arm and flew to her room with it.
This Thomas was as full of surprises as a Christmas-box.
He eyed the empty doorway speculatively.

He rather preferred the friendly aloofness; otherwise some fatal nonsense might enter his head.
He resumed his chair and transferred his gaze to the blotter.

He added a few pothooks by the way: numerals in addition and subtraction (for he was of Scotch descent), a name which he scratched out and scrawled again and again scratched out.