And I know your mother could; she trained you all.

"I do hope," he said to me half seriously, "that child can cook the way her mother could."

And she knew that if Stoner lived, her mother could also.

Her mother couldn't well fob the girl's question off, could she?

The mother of the captain, who saw him dead, shot hi the back, could neither move nor speak.

One day the child was very troublesome, and the mother could not quiet it, do what she would.

And as only a mother could, her home is ready any time company calls.

"My mother couldn't or didn't want to keep me," he said.

The mother could not, but the little girl did.

The baby could make up for its bad nights during the day, if it liked, but the poor mother couldn't.