We couldn't do anything for her after we left, and it would be better to let her depend on her own exertions, now that she had got started again on that track.
I didn't think that the word exertion was a very good one in Poqua-dilla's case, but I didn't argue the matter.

I thought that if some of us dropped around there before we left, and gave her a couple of shillings, it would not interfere much with her mercantile success in the future.
I thought this, but Corny spoke it right out--at least, what she said amounted to pretty much the same thing.
"Well," said her mother, "we might go around there once more, especially as your father has never seen the queen at all.

Mr.Chipperton, would you like to see the African queen ?" Mr.Chipperton did not answer, and his wife turned around quickly.

She had been walking ahead with the Chicago lady.
"Why, where is he ?" she exclaimed.

We all stopped and looked about, but couldn't see him.