I'm glad you tore up that fool paper of mine.

I hoped you might when I gave it to you.

Now you run along, and I'll wash dishes.

If cleanliness is next to godliness, then a parson ought to eat out of clean plates." As a matter of fact, the minister's calls were in the nature of a compromise, although an unintentional one.

He dropped in on Zebedee Mayo, owner of the big house on the slope of the hill.