"This room is yours as long as you like.

Make yourselves perfectly at home." "Thank you ever so much," replied Mother Hubbard, bobbing her head, while the "pillow-sham" ruffles waved this way and that, like a field of ripe grain.
"Whenever you want anything, just ring this bell, and I will come; or, if you ring the other one, it will bring Rachel.

And, Miss Prudy, here is the 'Young Housekeeper's Friend;' perhaps you would like to look it over." Mother Hubbard blushed to her cap-border, and took the book with another "Thank you ever so much," but did not know what else to say to such a dignified woman.
The truth was, Mrs.Fixfax was trying so hard to keep from laughing, that her manner was rather stiff and cold.
"I have left the ventilator open," thought she.

"The children are full of talk, and I don't want to lose a word.

Besides, Mrs.Allen would consider it safer for me to know all that's going on." "There, glad she's gone," said Lady Magnifico, as Mrs.Fixfax's stately form disappeared.
"She isn't as pretty as the _new_ Miss _Fixfix_.