The bride is coming day after to-morrow, and she'll be opening her presents and showing her trousseau to the girls, and I wouldn't miss it for anything.

So I've made up my mind I'll be just as polite as possible, but I'll do as the stork did in the fable; make my entertainment so deep she won't enjoy it.

I'm hunting up the longest words I can find and learning their definitions, so that I can use them properly." Rob, looking over her shoulder, laughed to see the list she had chosen: "Indefatigability, Juxtaposition, Loquaciousness, Pabulum, Peregrinate, Longevous." "You see," explained Mary, "sometimes there is a quotation after the word from some author, so I've copied a lot of them to use, instead of making up sentences myself.

Here's one from Shakespeare about alacrity.
And here's one from Arbuthnot, whoever he was, that will make her stare." She traced the sentence with her forefinger, for Rob's glance to follow: "_Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious_." "Girlie won't have any more idea of what I'm talking about than a jay-bird." To Mary's astonishment, the laugh with which Rob received her confidence was so long and loud it ended in a whoop of amusement, and when he had caught his breath he began again in such an infectious way that the girls up-stairs heard it and joined in.

Then Lloyd leaned over the banister to call: "What's the mattah, Rob?
You all seem to be having a mighty funny time down there.