I've only three horses, but I think they are tolerably good ones." The major now turned to Burton and said something in a low tone, to which the other replied, "Well, if you say so, I'll get it; but it's devilish dear." "Dear, my young friend! Cheap, dog cheap." "Only think, O'Malley, a whole brass bed, camp-stool, basin-stand, all complete, for sixty pounds! If it was not that a widow was disposing of it in great distress, one hundred could not buy it.

Here we are; come along,--no ceremony.

Mind the two steps; that's it, Mrs.Dalrymple, Mr.
O'Malley; Mr.Sparks, Mr.Burton, my daughters.

Is tea over, girls ?" "Why, Papa, it's nearly eleven o'clock," said Fanny, as she rose to ring the bell, displaying in so doing the least possible portion of a very well-turned ankle.
Miss Matilda Dal laid down her book, but seemingly lost in abstraction, did not deign to look at us.

Mrs.Dalrymple, however, did the honors with much politeness, and having by a few adroit and well-put queries ascertained everything concerning our rank and position, seemed perfectly satisfied that our intrusion was justifiable.
While my _confrere_, Mr.Sparks, was undergoing his examination I had time to look at the ladies, whom I was much surprised at finding so very well looking; and as the ensign had opened a conversation with Fanny, I approached my chair towards the other, and having carelessly turned over the leaves of the book she had been reading, drew her on to talk of it.