We have been all alive with acting." "Indeed! and what have you been acting ?" "Oh! they'll tell you all about it." "The _all_ will soon be told," cried Tom hastily, and with affected unconcern; "but it is not worth while to bore my father with it now.

You will hear enough of it to-morrow, sir.

We have just been trying, by way of doing something, and amusing my mother, just within the last week, to get up a few scenes, a mere trifle.

We have had such incessant rains almost since October began, that we have been nearly confined to the house for days together.

I have hardly taken out a gun since the 3rd.
Tolerable sport the first three days, but there has been no attempting anything since.