Wa'al, it kinder thrills ye the way I felt when I first beheld LOBELIA BANGS!
Soc. Chat. Oh, you really ought to go—so touching! DICK and I both regularly howled all through the last Act ... Not in the least, thanks. Well, if there is a seat ... You're sure there are any ices? Then, strawberry, please—no, nothing to drink!... Will you allow me?... Told she could dress hair perfectly, but I soon found she was ... a Swedenborgian, my dear, or something horrid ... Haven't you? I've had it three times, and ... so many people have asked me for cards that really I ... had the drains thoroughly looked to, and now they're ... delicious, but rather overpowering in a room, I think! &c., &c.
Miss F.B. (with genuine feeling).
Who would imagine one meek-voiced girl could have held her own, in a deafening din!
But LOBELIA's scholars discovered soon she'd a dead-sure notion of discipline;
For her satin palm had a sting like steel, and the rowdiest rebel respected her,
When she'd stretched out six of the hardest lots in the Bible-Class with a Derringer!
Soc. Chat. No, a very dull party, you could move about quite easily in all the rooms, so we ... kicked the whole concern to shivers and ... came on here as soon as we could ... Capital dinner they gave us, too ... &c., &c.
Miss F.B. (with as much conviction as possible under the circumstances).
And the silence deepened; no creature stirred in the stagnant hush, and the only sound