And soon the dogs were.

No,” he said, “that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.

Still, there was an anxious look about her eye, by which I knew that she had some trouble.

Is it not better,” she said, “to lead a good fashion than to follow a bad one?

Well, then,” he said, “I hope you are good-tempered; I do not like any one next door who bites.

We have no right to distress any of God’s creatures without a very good reason.

To my mind, fashion is one of the wickedest things in the world.

I have heard the commandments read a great many times and I never noticed that any of them said, “Thou shalt be rich.

You have saved me more than money can ever pay for. Take this extra half-crown.

Poor things! I know what sort of treatment they have had. If they are timid, it makes them start or shy; if they are high-mettled, it makes them vicious or dangerous; their tempers are mostly made when they are young. Bless you! they are like children, train ’em up in the way they should go, as the good book says, and when they are old they will not depart from it, if they have a chance, that is.