But I forgive you." He stopped, drew his hand across his forehead, and then added, "I s'pose I hadn't ought to complain.

Maybe I'd better get used to it; I guess likely this is only the beginnin'." Lavinia blushed furiously.
"Why, 'Bish!" she exclaimed.

"How you do talk! Ain't he awful, Mr.
Ellery ?" The Reverend John did not answer.

He could not trust himself to speak just then.

When he did it was to announce that he must be getting toward home.