"Ladies are not chaps," said Bessie, gravely, "and they don't play with kites."
"Oh, you're a big lady, aren't you?" said he, laughing.
"I can be a lady if I'm not so very big. Mamma says anybody can be a lady or a gemperlum, if they are kind and polite, even if they are very little, or even if they are poor."
"All right," said Fred. "Then I suppose that lady wont accept a kite from this gemperlum."
"Don't say it that way; you must say gem-per-lum."
"Well, don't I say gem-per-lum?"
"That's not the way," said Bessie, her color rising, for she knew that Fred was laughing at her, and she thought it was hard.
"Fred," said Harry, "you are breaking your resolution already."
Bessie in City. p. 184.