This he did, and promised to look up cases meantime.
But these two allies not only baffled their irascible chief; they also humored him to the full.

They never mentioned the name of Bartley, and they kept Percy Fitzroy out of sight in spite of his remonstrances, and, in a word, they made the Colonel's life so smooth that he thought he was going to have his own way in everything, and he improved in health and spirits; for you know it is an old saying, "Always get your own way, and you'll never die in a pet." And then what was still a tottering situation was kept on its legs by the sweet character and gentle temper of Mary Bartley.
We have already mentioned that she was superior to most women in the habit of close attention to whatever she undertook.

This was the real key to her facility in languages, history, music, drawing, and calisthenics, as her professor called female gymnastics.

The flexible creature's limbs were in secret steel.

She could go thirty feet up a slack rope hand over hand with wonderful ease and grace, and hang by one hand for ten minutes to kiss the other to her friends.