'You are of so little use to your generation.

People do not benefit by your example, or defer to your opinion.

There is no St.
Ursula in the calendar.' Now what did he mean by all this rigmarole?
But he only laughed again in a provoking way, and went out.
I had had both the sisters on my hands.

Those hours of fearful suspense had told on Phoebe, and for a week or two we were very anxious about her.
I kept the extent of her illness from Susan, and she never knew that Mr.Hamilton visited her daily.

Strange to say, Phoebe gave us little trouble.