I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
I suppose my father could have been a good man even if he had been called Jedediah; but I'm sure it would have been a cross.
Well, my mother was a teacher in the High school, too, but when she married father she gave up teaching, of course.
A husband was enough responsibility.
Mrs. Thomas said that they were a pair of babies and as poor as church mice.
They went to live in a weeny-teeny little yellow house in Bolingbroke.
I've never seen that house, but I've imagined it thousands of times.
I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlor window and lilacs in the front yard and lilies of the valley just inside the gate.
Yes, and muslin curtains in all the windows.
Muslin curtains give a house such an air.