"They can never let their own particular trade alone.

I suppose he also felt your pulse and looked at your tongue." "Rather! Then he said I had no business to be walking about with a temperature of 103.

I was so much annoyed that I promptly smashed the thermometer, and we had a fine chase after the quicksilver.

You never saw anything like it! It ran like a rabbit, in and out of the nooks and corners of the chair, until at last it disappeared through a crack in the floor; went to ground, you know.

Doesn't Helen look well on horseback ?" "Charming.