"The loss is yours, I assure you," said Mrs. Pardiggle with her commanding deportment. "He is a very fervid, impassioned speaker--full of fire! Stationed in a waggon on this lawn, now, which, from the shape of the land, is naturally adapted to a public meeting, he would improve almost any occasion you could mention for hours and hours! By this time, young ladies," said Mrs. Pardiggle, moving back to her chair and overturning, as if by invisible agency, a little round table at a considerable distance with my work-basket on it, "by this time you have found me out, I dare say?"

"The loss is yours, I assure you," said Mrs. Pardiggle. "He is a very fervid, impassioned speaker - full of fire! He would improve almost any occasion you could mention for hours and hours! By this time, young ladies, you have found me out, I dare say?"
