For my own sake, I had no disposition to tell on her.

Indeed I took pains to keep her from being found out.

I told her to confine her religious exercises to the children's quarters, and urged her to remember that Mrs.Clemens was prejudiced against pieties on week-days.
To the children, the little maid's profanities sounded natural and proper and right, because they had been used to that kind of talk in Germany, and they attached no evil importance to it.

It grieves me that I have forgotten those vigorous remarks.

I long hoarded them in my memory as a treasure.