He asked her if she was in favour of the Prisons Regulation Bill, and she was very rude." "I only said," broke in Miss Afflint, "that owing to my lack of definite local knowledge I was not in a position to give an answer commensurate with the gravity of the subject." She spoke in a perfect imitation of the tone of a pompous man.
"Bertha, I do not approve of you," said Lady Manorwater.

"I forbid you to mimic Mr.Stocks.He is very clever, and very much in earnest over everything.

I don't wonder that a butterfly like you should laugh, but I hope Miss Wishart will be kind to him." "I am afraid I am very ignorant," said Alice hastily, "and I am very useless.

I never did any work of any sort in my life, and when I think of you I am ashamed." "Oh, my dear child, please don't think me a paragon," cried her hostess in horror.

"I am a creature of vague enthusiasms and I have the sense to know it.