Whatever Mr.Harum's testamentary intentions may be, or even whether he has made a will or not, nobody knows but himself and his attorney.

Aunt Polly--well, there is a little more of her than when we first made her acquaintance, say twenty pounds.
John and his wife live in a house which they built on the shore of the lake.

It is a settled thing that David and his sister dine with them every Sunday.

Mrs.Bixbee at first looked a little askance at the wine on the table, but she does not object to it now.

Being a "son o' temp'rence," she has never been induced to taste any champagne, but on one occasion she was persuaded to take the smallest sip of claret.
"Wa'al," she remarked with a wry face, "I guess the' can't be much sin or danger 'n drinkin' anythin' 't tastes the way _that_ does." She and Mrs.Lenox took to each other from the first, and the latter has quite supplanted (and more) Miss Claricy (Mrs.Elton) with David.