"I might just as well have stayed at home." "You don't mean to say," asked Miss Panney, "that nobody answered your advertisement ?" "When I reached the rooms of the Non-Resident Club, where the applicants were to call--" "That's the first time," interrupted Miss Panney, "that I ever heard that that Club was of the slightest use." "It wasn't of any use this time," said the other; "for although I found several women there who came before the hour appointed, and at least a dozen came in the course of the morning, not one of them would do at all.

I was just now looking out at our asparagus bed, and wondering if any of those beautiful heads would ever be cooked properly.

The woman in our kitchen knows that she is to depart, and she is in a terribly bad temper, and this she puts into her cooking.

The doctor is almost out of temper himself.

He says that he has pretty good teeth, but that he cannot bite spite." Miss Panney now appeared to be getting out of temper.
"I must say, Kitty," she said, in a tone of irritation, "that I do not understand how it was that out of the score or more of applicants, you could not find a better cook than the good-for-nothing creature you have now.