The pronunciation, as it happens, is just what I am most at home in; if he had said my genders or my idioms there would have been some sense.

But poor father has no tact, and this defect is especially marked since he has been in Europe.

He will be absent, however, for three months, and mother and I shall breathe more freely; the situation will be less intense.

I must confess that we breathe more freely than I expected, in this place, where we have been for about a week.

I was sure, before we came, that it would prove to be an establishment of the _lowest description_; but I must say that, in this respect, I am agreeably disappointed.