I am in some hopes that this Sydney journey will satisfy his wandering propensities for the present, and that we may keep him at home.

I wish he would fall in love with somebody, providing she wasn't old enough to be his grandmother .-- Couldn't you send him a letter of introduction to some of your old schoolfellows, Miss Puss?
There was one of them, I remember, I fell in love with myself one time when I came to see you; Miss Green, I think it was.

She was very nearly being your mamma-in-law, my dear." "Why, she is a year younger than me," said Alice, "and, oh goodness, such a temper! She threw the selections from Beethoven at Signor Smitherini, and had bread and water-melon for two days for it.

Serve her right!" "I have had a narrow escape, then," replied the father.

"But we shall see who these two people are immediately, for they are crossing the river." When the two travellers rose again into sight on the near bank of the river, one of them was seen galloping forward, waving his hat.
"I KNEW it was Jim," said Alice, "and on a new grey horse.