My mother called him after the Black Prince.
He and I disgraced ourselves in the eyes of the Cockatoo lady, and it cost the family thirty thousand pounds, which we can ill afford to lose.

It was unlucky that she came to luncheon the very day that Edward and I had settled to dress up as Early Britons, in blue woad, and dine off earth-nuts in the shrubbery.

As we slipped out at the side door, the yellow chariot drove up to the front.

We had doormats on, as well as powder-blue, but the old lady was terribly shocked, and drove straight away, and did not return.

Nurse says she is my father's godmother, and has thirty thousand pounds, which she would have bequeathed to us if we had not offended her.