I wonder how it came here; whisked off the table by accident perhaps when they were making the bed.' 'I was looking at it yesterday, and it must have dropped in then.' 'O, he's a friend of yours?
Bless his picturesque heart!' Ella's loyalty to the object of her admiration could not endure to hear him ridiculed.

'He's a clever man!' she said, with a tremor in her gentle voice which she herself felt to be absurdly uncalled for.
'He is a rising poet--the gentleman who occupied two of these rooms before we came, though I've never seen him.' 'How do you know, if you've never seen him ?' 'Mrs.Hooper told me when she showed me the photograph.' 'O; well, I must up and be off.

I shall be home rather early.

Sorry I can't take you to-day, dear.

Mind the children don't go getting drowned.' That day Mrs.Marchmill inquired if Mr.Trewe were likely to call at any other time.
'Yes,' said Mrs.Hooper.