Pollyanna knew that the Ladies' Aid met at two o'clock in the chapel next the church,
not quite half a mile from home.
He felt it, and being in doubt, said: "I do
not quite know whether it is the cub of a Fox, or the whelp of a Wolf, but this I know full well.
With his untidy beard and long hair, his features, always a little larger than life, now emphasised by illness, he had an extraordinary aspect; but it was so odd that it was
not quite ugly.
And all these conversations were right enough, only in two places there was something
not quite right.
"Oh, you're not going to leave me this morning--of all mornings?" Philip did
not quite know why he should not, but it did not matter.
THE beautiful metropolis of America is by no means so clean a city as Boston, but many of its streets have the same characteristics; except that the houses are
not quite so fresh-coloured, the sign- boards are
not quite so gaudy, the gilded letters
not quite so golden, the bricks
not quite so red, the stone
not quite so white, the blinds and area railings
not quite so green, the knobs and plates upon the street doors
not quite so bright and twinkling.
Madame Chiffon informs me that she herself had thought of using tambour work as being more suitable (though I did
not quite take in all she said).
She expresses a most eager desire of being acquainted with me, and makes very gracious mention of my children but I am
not quite weak enough to suppose a woman who has behaved with inattention, if not with unkindness, to her own child, should be attached to any of mine.
Now I affirm, that all these states have, without exception, fallen into excess; and also that he should not have said that one oligarchy was better than another, but that it was
not quite so bad.
Princesses he found in plenty; but whether they were real Princesses it was impossible for him to decide, for now one thing, now another, seemed to him
not quite right about the ladies.
"I'm agreein' with you," was Matt's answer, and again his employer was
not quite satisfied with him.
"
Not quite. I feel that you and I and Henry are only fragments of that woman's mind.