Women would rave about him; men would think him finical and dandified.

He looks as if he were the happiest fellow in the world--in fact, he looked to me so provokingly happy that I disliked him; but now that Dodo is my little sister again, I can be happy enough to envy no one." Then Dora slipped her hand into her brother's hand, and Bryce knew that he might take his way to his little office in William Street, the advent of Mr.Mostyn into his life being now as certain as anything in this questionable, fluctuating world could be.

As he was sauntering down the avenue he met Ethel and he turned and walked back with her to the Denning house.

He was so good-natured and so good-humored that Ethel could not avoid an inquisitive look at the usually glum young man, and he caught it with a laugh and said, "I suppose you wonder what is the matter with me, Miss Rawdon ?" "You look more than usually happy.

If I suppose you have found a wife or a fortune, shall I be wrong ?" "You come near the truth; I have found a sister.