One moment I was staring up at that lackbrain Sister Margaret, and the next I was staring at that lackbrain chieftain...

The colloquial and at times sarcastic tone of her books make her popular with teenagers.

Few now assembled but had a remembrance of some of those thousand little kindlinesses which daily occur in the common intercourse of life.

All cane juice is liable to rapid fermentation. As soon, therefore, as the clarifier is filled, the fire is lighted, and the temper (white lime of Bristol) is stirred into it. The alkali of the lime having neutralized its superabundant acid, a part of it becomes the basis of the sugar.