"But if your ladyship would give me a day's work to keep me goin', I could put up all this money in a little wooden savings bank I have at home, and keep it to spend when sickness or odd age shall, in a manner of speaking, lay their 'ends upon me.

I could smooth that grass beautiful; them young ladies 'll strain themselves with that heavy roller.

If tennis is the word, I can put up nets fit to catch birds of paradise in.

If the courts is to be chalked out in white, I can draw a line so straight that you could hardly keep yourself from erecting an equilateral triangle on it.

I am honest when well watched, and I can wait at table equal to the Lord Mayor o' London's butler." "I cannot employ you without a character," said Miss Wilson, amused by his scrap of Euclid, and wondering where he had picked it up.
"I bear the best of characters, lady.