Oh! then you like the presents because they are our own making?
I never thought of that.

Was that the reason you did not give us any of your sovereigns to buy things with ?" "Perhaps I want my sovereigns for the eleven gaping mouths at home, Blanche.

But would not it be a pity to spoil your pleasure?
You would have lost all the chattering and laughing and buzzing I have heard round Margaret of late, and I am quite sure Miss Rivers can hardly be as happy in the gifts that cost her nothing, as one little girl who gives her sugar-plums out of her own mouth!" Blanche clasped her papa's hand tight, and bounded five or six times.
"They are our presents, not yours," said she.

"Yes, I see.

I like them better now." "Ay, ay," said the doctor.