There's nothing to be said; I must have two, and two passably respectable ones, to-morrow morning!
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
Well, I don't mind owning to you I was nervous as a cat: but there, if you didn't detect it I shall flatter myself I did passably.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
They had but little to spend, and she was put to her wit's end to passably furnish the house.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland