Out of the corner of my eye I notice a grizzled old black lady with a chinful of hair wistfully studying the phone in my hand and give her a thumbs-up sign that I'm almost through.

For some here affirm, that Sin is said to be the Punishment of Sin, because in most sinful Actions, the Committer of them is really a Sufferer in and by the very Sin which he commits

Her appearance, her dress, her manners; what they were pleased to term her stand-offishness; her shortcomings as a housekeeper; her ignorance in the matter of mending under-linen; her novel-reading and piano- playing — all these had been toothsome morsels, far more enjoyable than the heavy pies, the thick chops, and the sardines which figured in that horrible Mesopotamian meal known as a thick tea; and had been picked to the very bone.

In English, the c sound in cent, central and circuit as distinct from the hard c in cat and cabin.