Or, rather, she doesn't despise anyone in particular, but is contemptuous by nature, just as you are stout." "Me! I had rather be stout than stuck-up.

Ought we to bow ?" "I will, certainly.

I want to make Pharoah blush, if I can." The two parsons had been simulating an interest in the cloudy firmament as an excuse for not looking at the girls until close at hand.

Jane sent an eyeflash at Josephs with a skill which proved her favorite assertion that she was not so stupid as people thought.

He blushed and took off his soft, low-crowned felt hat.