The wear and tear of our sun is too much for them; they don't last.

My uncle, who has a place at Long Branch, had five sun-dials in ten years." "How very odd! But really now, Miss Dare, I don't see how a sun--dial could wear out." "Don't you?
How strange! Don't you see, they get soaked with sunshine so that they can't hold shadow.

It's like me, you know.

I have such a good time all the time that I can't be unhappy.

Do you ever read the Burlington Hawkeye, Lord Dunbeg ?" "I don't remember; I think not.