Goot morning." And off she trudged to the station.
Before I reached the house that afternoon, Euphemia rushed out to tell this story.

I would not like to say how far I kicked those ham-bones.
This German girl had several successors, and some of them suited as badly and left as abruptly as herself; but Euphemia never forgot the ungrateful stab given her by this "ham-bone girl," as she always called her.

It was her first wound of the kind, and it came in the very beginning of the campaign when she was all unused to this domestic warfare..