"That 's a very nice thing to do," he said, "giving them the little house.

You will have treated them handsomely, and, whatever happens, you will be glad of it." Mr.Wentworth was liberal, and he knew he was liberal.

It gave him pleasure to know it, to feel it, to see it recorded; and this pleasure is the only palpable form of self-indulgence with which the narrator of these incidents will be able to charge him.
"A three days' visit at most, over there, is all I should have found possible," Madame Munster remarked to her brother, after they had taken possession of the little white house.

"It would have been too intime--decidedly too intime.

Breakfast, dinner, and tea en famille--it would have been the end of the world if I could have reached the third day." And she made the same observation to her maid Augustine, an intelligent person, who enjoyed a liberal share of her confidence.