I couldn't believe it, an' I don't rightly believe it yet.

I'll read you the answer as he's sent me.' Daniel gave forth the letter, getting rather lost amid its pretentious periods, with the eccentric pauses and intonation of an uneducated reader.

Standing in a busy thoroughfare, he and Kate almost blocked the pavement; impatient pedestrians pushed against them, and uttered maledictions.
'I suppose that's Dick's new way o' sayin' he hadn't nothin' to do with it,' Daniel commented at the end.

'Money seems always to bring long words with it somehow.

It seems to me he'd ought to speak plainer.' 'Who's done it, if he didn't ?' Kate exclaimed, with shrill anger.