he's not a merchant, or he's not a miser!"
- "It IS so kind of you to enquire! I'm really feeling a great deal better to-day."
"And is it Nature, or Art, that is to have the credit of this happy change?"
"Art, I think. The Doctor has given me some of that patent medicine of his."
"Well, I'll never call him a humbug again. There's SOMEBODY, at any rate, that feels better after taking his medicine!"
- "No, I don't like you one bit. And I'll go and play with my doll. DOLLS are never unkind."
"So you like a doll better than a cousin? Oh you little silly!"
"Of course I do! COUSINS are never kind--at least no cousins I've ever seen."
"Well, and what does THAT prove, I'd like to know! If you mean that cousins aren't dolls, who ever said they were?"
- "What are you talking about geraniums for? You can't tell one flower from another, at this distance! I grant you they're all RED flowers: it doesn't need a telescope to know THAT."
"Well, some geraniums are red, aren't they?"