"It's almost as bad as when they thought we'd committed murder," she said to Hannah.
"It was queer how we found that," said Hannah.
"Hush," said Lucinda.

"You remember what we agreed upon after we'd told Albion Bennet that we'd keep it secret." "Of course I remember," said Hannah; "but there ain't any harm in my reminding you how queer it was that we found the arsenic, that the poor thing had been taking to make her beautiful complexion, in her room." "It was awful," said Lucinda.

"Poor soul! I always liked her.

People ought to be contented with what God has given them for complexions." "I wonder if she would have looked very dreadful if she hadn't taken it," Hannah said, ruminatingly.

She was passing the kitchen looking-glass as she spoke, and glanced in it.