His father introduced Hill to his stepmother as he said, "Dear, I hope you notice in the entire shire this is the worst boy, who has made me have no other way."
His patent leather trouser suit had been made in such a hurry that he had no time to sew up the seams and had relied, instead, on glue to hold them together.
His performances in language courses were excellent in high school, and sometimes his teacher would come to him for help when encountering uncommon words.
His marriage was now fast approaching, and she was at length so far resigned as to think it inevitable, and even repeatedly to say in an ill-natured tone that she "wished they might be happy."
Hillary's difficult interview and my mixed reaction to it clearly exemplified the bind I had put myself in: As a husband, I had done something wrong that I needed to apologize and atone for;
Historically its economy has been more volatile than the rest of the country's, suffering more in recessions but then outperforming when better times returned.