If you don't believe ME, ask my MAID." And with this felicitous speech, she rang the bell.
"You'll break the wire if you don't mind," suggested her father, piteously.
"All the better! Why should not wires be broken as well as my heart?
Oh, here she is! Now, Harriet, come here." "Yes, miss." "And tell the truth.

AM I tight-laced ?" Harriet looked in her face a moment to see what was required of her, and then said, "That you are not, miss.

I never dressed a young lady as wore 'em easier than you do." "There, papa! That will do, Harriet." Harriet retired as far as the keyhole; she saw something was up.
"Now," said Rosa, "you see I was right; and, after all, it was a match you did not approve.

Well, it is all over, and now you may write to your favorite, Colonel Bright.

If he comes here, I'll box his old ears.