"Just guess at the amount you'd feel able to pay and then divide it by two, and you'll have it." "Dear me," cried Mrs.Fenn, "how perfectly satisfactory! Rumsey, you _must_ have yours out this week.

You're always talking about not being able to afford things, and here's a chance to save money in a way you never would have suspected." "Good Lord, Madge," exclaimed her husband, "I've never had a pain in my life.

I wish you wouldn't keep nagging at me all the time to have an operation performed, whether I need it or not.

Let my appendix alone.

It's always treated me with extreme loyalty and respect, so why the deuce should I turn upon the poor thing and assassinate it ?" "See here, Rumsey," said Simmy Dodge sagely, "if I were in your place I'd have a perfectly sound tooth pulled some time, just to keep it from aching when you're an old man.