"It would be just the thing for him now--we would show him the dockyard, and all those matters, and such a thorough holiday would set him up again." "He is very much better." "Much better--he is recovering spirits and tone very fast.

That leaf-work of yours came at a lucky time.

I like to see him looking out for a curious fern in the hedgerows--the pursuit has quite brightened him up." "And he does it so thoroughly," said Margaret.

"Ethel fancies it is rather frivolous of him, I believe; but it amuses me to see how men give dignity to what women make trifling.

He will know everything about the leaves, hunts up my botany books, and has taught me a hundred times more of the construction and wonders of them than I ever learned." "Ay," said the doctor, "he has been talking a good deal to me about vegetable chemistry.