The paint flaked off after only a year.

Tell Mrs. James that they seized my flannel petticoats (although made up), which I had provided for winter wear, and upon muslins and dimmities.

He had a fresh complexion, eyes of that common uncertain shade of gray, and was closely shaven except for the incipient muttonchops on his ruddy cheeks.

When I saw the penny black missing from my collection in the shop window, I just went in and snapped it up.