I afterward learned that nothing was more common than this populous way of entertaining guests, and that he had long since become hardened to the Indelicacies of such situations.
"A Circuit Rider's Wife"
Corra Harris
Her appearance had altered amazingly, she no longer called him "Mister Symes," and by repeated corrections he had succeeded in inducing her to refrain from folding her hands upon her abdomen, but the plebeian strain, the deficiency of gentle birth betrayed itself in a dozen little ways, by Indelicacies none the less irritating because they were trifling.
"The Lady Doc"
Caroline Lockhart