I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.

Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!