Kezia Bateson is a God-fearing woman, and her husband has worked at the Osierfield for forty years.

I have the greatest respect for Caleb Bateson; he is a worthy man and a good Methodist, as his father was before him." "He is a very ignorant man: he says Penny-lope." "Says what, Elisabeth ?" "Penny-lope.

I was showing him a book the other day about Penelope--the woman with the web, you know--and he called her Penny-lope.

I didn't like to correct him, but I said Penelope afterward as often and as loud as I could." "That was very ill-bred of you.

Come here, Elisabeth." The child came and stood by the old lady's chair, and began playing with a bunch of seals that were suspended by a gold chain from Miss Farringdon's waist.