"It is one of the most majestic objects I ever beheld." "It is not unlike Staffa," said Desborough.

"There come two travellers." Two dots appeared crawling over the plain, and making for the river.
For a few minutes Alice could not be brought to see them, but when she did, she declared that it was Jim and Halbert.
"You have good eyes, my love," said her father, "to see what does not exist.

Jim's horse is black, and Halbert's roan, and those two men are both on grey horses." "The wish was parent to the thought, father," she replied, laughing.

"I wonder what is keeping him away from us so long?
If he is to go to India, I should like to see him as much as possible." "My dear," said her father, "when he went off with Halbert to see the Markhams, I told him that if he liked to go on to Sydney, he could go if Halbert went with him, and draw on the agent for what money he wanted.

By his being so long away, I conclude he has done so, and that he is probably at this moment getting a lesson at billiards from Halbert before going to dinner.