Mark my words, she'll never do better, taking him all round, than Master Christopher." Mrs.Hankey sighed.

"I only hope she'll find it out before it is too late, and he is either laid in an early grave or else married to a handsomer woman, as the case may be, and both ways out of her reach.

But I doubt it.

She was a dark baby, if you remember, was Miss Elisabeth; and I never trust them as has been dark babies, and never shall." "And how is Peter's toothache now ?" inquired Mrs.Bateson, who was a more tender-hearted matron than Peter's mother.
"Oh! it's no better; and I know no one more aggravating than folks who keep sayin' they are no better when you ask 'em how they are.

It always seems so ungrateful.