You would be glad to come, if you loved me." "And I do love you, Lotta, with all my heart," answered Miss Paget, with unusual fervour; "but then the whole of my heart is not much.

As to coming to live with you, of course it would be a hundred thousand times pleasanter than the life I lead here; but it is not to be supposed that Mr.Sheldon will consent to have a stranger in his house just because his impulsive stepdaughter chooses to take a fancy to a schoolfellow who isn't worthy of half her affection." "Let me be the judge of that.

As to my stepfather, I am almost sure of his consent.

You don't know how indulgent he is to me; which shows what a wicked creature I must be not to like him.

You shall come to us, Diana, and be my sister; and we will play and sing our pet duets together, and be as happy as two birds in a cage, or a good deal happier--for I never could quite understand the ecstatic delight of perpetual hempseed and an occasional peck at a dirty lump of sugar." After this there came all the bustle of packing and preparation for departure, and a kind of saturnalia prevailed at Hyde Lodge--a saturnalia which terminated with the breaking-up ball: and who among the crowd of fair young dancers so bright as Charlotte Halliday, dressed in the schoolgirl's festal robes of cloud-like muslin, and with her white throat set off by a black ribbon and a gold locket?
Diana sat in a corner of the schoolroom towards the close of the evening, very weary of her share in the festival, and watched her friend, half in sadness, half in envy.
"Perhaps if I were like her, _he_ would love me," she thought..