I heard what you said when Lonesome ate up the steak, and I thought maybe you hadn't been for a long time.

I guess churches are different in South America." So they went to church and sat in the old Whittaker pew.

The captain had been there once before when he first returned to Bayport, but the sermon was more somnolent than edifying, and he hadn't repeated the experiment.
The pair attracted much attention.

Fragments of a conversation, heard by Captain Cy as they emerged into the vestibule, had momentous consequences.
"Kind of a pretty child, ain't she ?" commented Mrs.Eben Salters, patting her false front into place under the eaves of her Sunday bonnet.
"Pretty enough in the face," sniffed Mrs."Tad" Simpson, who was wearing her black silk for the first time since its third making-over.

"Pretty enough that way, I s'pose.