It'll take me ever so long to get over being afraid to knock my head against something when I stand up." "You can sit out-doors until the weather gets too cold," observed the professor.

"The sky is as high here as in New York, isn't it ?" Cornelia ignored this remark with admirable self-poise.

"Aunt Margaret was asking a good deal about Mr.Bressant, too," said she.

"She said she'd only heard about him from you, papa; but I thought, sometimes, she must be fibbing.

Once in a while, you know, she acted just as if she had forgotten having said she didn't know him.