"And all because I said 'stupid!' Well I don't care -- they _are_ all stupid -- Rufus was as stupid this afternoon as he could be; and there is no need, for he can be anything else.

He was as stupid as he could be." "What _have_ you to do with Rufus ?" said Elizabeth stamping slightly.
"Just what you have to do with Winthrop -- amuse myself." "You know I don't!" said Elizabeth.

"How dare you say it! I do not _choose_ to have such things said to me.

You _know_, if that was all, that Winthrop does not amuse anybody -- nobody ever sees him from meal-time to meal-time.

You find Rufus very amusing, and he _can_ talk very well, considering; but nobody knows whether the other one can be amusing, for ho never tried, so far as I know." "I know," said her cousin; "they are a stupid set, all of them." "They are _not_ a stupid set," said Elizabeth; "there is not a stupid one of them, from the father down.