After some time he began again: "But, Maggie, I don't give up this wish of mine to go to Australia--Canada, if you like it better--anywhere where there is a newer and purer state of society." "The great objection seems to be your duty, as an only child, to your father.

It is different to the case of one out of a large family." "I wish I were one in twenty, then I might marry where I liked to-morrow." "It would take two people's consent to such a rapid measure," said Maggie, laughing.

"But now I am going to wish a wish, which it won't require a fairy godmother to gratify.

Look, Frank, do you see in the middle of that dark brown purple streak of moor a yellow gleam of light?
It is a pond, I think, that at this time of the year catches a slanting beam of the sun.

It cannot be very far off.