Mary Cassatt painting

Mary Cassatt painting
had the digestion of an ostrich, and yet he was rather fanciful, as gentlemen's servants who have lived in good places often are.
Yes, Bunting was very lucky in the matter of his digestion. Mrs. Bunting prided herself on having a nice mind, and she would never have allowed an unrefined word - such a word as "stomach," for instance, to say nothing of an even plainer term - to pass her lips, except, of course, to a doctor in a sick-room.
Mary Cassatt painting
Mr. Sleuth's landlady did not go down at once into her cold kitchen; instead, with a sudden furtive movement, she opened the door leading into her bedroom, and then, closing the door quietly, stepped back into the darkness, and stood motionless, listening.
Mary Cassatt painting