He told me before Mr.and Mrs.Halliday came to town that he and Miss Georgy had forgotten all about past times." "O, if Phil said so, that alters the case.

Phil is one of your blunt outspoken fellows, and always says what he means," said George Sheldon.
And then he went downstairs, leaving Nancy to follow him at her leisure with the tray of jingling cups and glasses.

He went down through the dusk, smiling to himself, as if he had just given utterance to some piece of intense humour.

He went to look for his brother, whom he found in the torture-chamber, busied with some mysterious process in connection with a lump of plaster-of-paris, which seemed to be the model of ruined battlements in the Gothic style.

The dentist looked up as George entered the room, and did not appear particularly delighted by the appearance of that gentleman.
"Well," said Mr.Sheldon the younger, "busy as usual?
Patients seem to be looking up." "Patients be----toothless to the end of time!" cried Philip, with a savage laugh.