At that moment Miss Terry's little grandchild, who was playing about the room,
BEGAN TO HOWL
most dismally.
"Here is a little maid who was a charmer from her cradle," said the delightful actress, picking up the child and
PLAYFULLY TOSSING
it out of the third-floor window. Seeing me look relieved, though somewhat surprised, she said merrily: "I have plenty more of them at home, and they are
ALL CHARMING,
every one of them! If you want to be charming you must be natural—I always am. Even in my cradle I was
QUITE NATURAL.
And now, please go. Your conversation bores me inexpressibly, and your countenance, which is at once vacuous and singularly plain, disagrees with me thoroughly. Go! or I shall