"If I had drawn on that, could I not have told you something much droller ?" "And was that really all ?" said Flora.
"They said--let me see--that all our noses were too long, and, that as to Flora's being a beauty! when their brothers called her--so droll of them--but Harvey called her a stuck-up duchess.

In fact, it was the fashion to make a great deal of those Mays." "I hope they said something of the sailor brother," said Ethel.
"No; I found if I stayed to hear much more, I should be knocking Ned down, so I thought it time to take leave before he suspected." All this had passed very quickly, with much laughter, and numerous interjections of amusement, and reprobation, or delight.

So excited were the young people, that they did not perceive a step on the gravel, till Dr.May entered by the window, and stood among them.

His first exclamation was of consternation.

"Margaret, my dear child, what is the matter ?" Only then did her brother and sisters perceive that Margaret was lying back on her cushions, very pale, and panting for breath.