But you're very ungrateful all the same, for if it hadn't been for----" "There, stop your ribaldry, Austin, and get up," said Aunt Charlotte, impatiently.

"The sooner we're all out of this dreadful room the better.

And let me tell you that you'd be better employed in thanking God for your deliverance than in turning sacred subjects into ridicule." "Thanking God?
Why, not a moment ago you said it was the devil!" exclaimed Austin.

"How you do chop and change about, auntie.

You can't possibly expect me to be orthodox when you go on contradicting yourself at such a rate.