Hebetrayedno_______ofdiscontent,exceptsuchasmayfollowevening?sdrinking.

After some very trifling stupid ______, she ventured to ask whether it was true that he was going away.

I do not mean to insult the reader by pretending that I killed, for instance, a regiment of cavalry or swallowed a battery of guns, —such _______ tales would disgrace both the hearer and the teller.

The following is a quarrel between a couple. “ The house is filthy with you, ” she cried. “ Then get out on it — it?s mine. Get out on it! ” he shouted. “ It?s me as brings th? money, not thee. ” The husband speaks a dialect, which can be seen from the following words except ________.

“ You ask me for Julia, and you do not possess even an anna! (Here the old ”— rogue ______ broadly, as if he had made a capital pun.)