It must make a difference whether your grandfather was a gentleman or a farm-boy.

Rona says herself she's a democrat.

I'm sure she looked the part when she arrived." "I don't know that she exactly looks it now, though," said Gertrude, championing Rona for once.
Everyone at the school realized that the Cuckoo was trying to behave herself.

The struggles towards perfection were sometimes almost pathetic, though the girls mostly viewed them from the humorous side.
She would sit up suddenly, bolt upright, at the tea table, if Miss Bowes' eye suggested that she was lolling; she apologized for accidents at which she had laughed before, and she corrected herself if a backwoods expression escaped her.
"Am I really any shakes smarter--I mean, more toned up--than I was ?" she asked Ulyth anxiously.
"You're far better than you were last term.

Do go on trying, that's all!" "Will they take me as a candidate in the Camp-fire League ?" "I expect so, but we shall have to ask Mrs.Arnold about that." Since the great reunion by the stream in September there had been no meetings of the Camp-fire League.