That's what they do to you; they set you right down and they talk _at_ you.

You've got to understand them; you can't help yourself.

That family my cousin was with has moved away somewhere, or I should try and get in with them.

They were very smart people, that family; after she left, my cousin corresponded with them in French.

But I mean to find some other crowd, if it takes a lot of trouble!" I listened to all this with great interest, and when he spoke about his cousin I was on the point of turning around to ask him the address of the family that she was with; but the next moment he said they had moved away; so I sat still.