I've been a fool, and I ought to be laughed at." "Pooh!" said I, "no more a fool than other men have been before you, from father Adam downwards." "And he was a most con--" "There," I interrupted: "don't abuse your ancestors.

Tell me why you have changed your mind so quick ?" "That's a precious hard thing to do, mind you;" he answered.

"A thousand trifling circumstances, which taken apart are as worthless straws, when they are bound up together become a respectable truss, which is marketable, and ponderable.

So it is with little traits in Mary's character, which I have only noticed lately, nothing separately, yet when taken together, to say the least, different to what I had imagined while my eyes were blinded.

To take one instance among fifty; there's her cousin Tom, one of the finest fellows that ever stepped; but still I don't like to see her, a married woman, allowing him to pull her hair about, and twist flowers in it." This was very true, but I thought that if James instead of Tom had been allowed the privilege of decorating her hair, he might have looked on it with different eyes.