Four-fifths of them can't spell Connecticut, and they don't know how many e's there are in 'separate.' I graduated from a high school in Philadelphia, and my mother did the same thing before me.

I also played on the basket-ball team, if that means anything to you.

My parents were poor but respectable, God-fearing people, as they say in the novels, and they were quite healthy as parents go in these days, when times are hard and children so cheap that nobody's without a good sized pack of them.

I was born with a brain that was meant to be used." "What are you two talking about so secretively ?" demanded Mrs.Rumsey Fenn, across the table from them.
"Ourselves, of course," said Lutie.

"Bright people always have something in reserve, my dear.