If you knew it all,--if you could understand how good he has been! I'll try and tell you some day.

It is not what he has done that makes me love him so,--but what he has thoroughly understood, and what, so understanding, he has not done, and what he has not said.

It is a case of sympathy.

If ever there was a gentleman uncle Christopher is one.

And I used to dislike him so, at one time!" "And why ?" "Chiefly because he would make me wear brown frocks when I wanted to have them pink or green.