No, my sweet mannie, it doesn't hurt a bit." "I'm very much to be pitied," proceeded Valentine.

"That isn't all"-- he sighed again--"I was born with a bad French accent, and without a single tooth in my head, or, out of it, while such was my weakness, that it took two strong men, both masters of arts, to drag me through the rudiments of the Latin grammar." Anastasia's eyes filled with tears.

It seemed so sad; and the tender little heart had not gone yet into the question of _seeming_.
"They _teached_ you the Latin grammar did they ?" said Bertram, who had also been listening, and was relieved to hear of something in this list of miseries that he could understand; "that's what Miss Crampton teaches me.

I don't like it, and you didn't either, then.

I'm six and three quarters; how old were you ?" Before Valentine had answered, John and Brandon, finding themselves before the party, had stopped and turned.