She said, "She did not mean to wait for that.

She should go back to her family in the East, if Mr.Lawton did not invite some of her young friends to come and stay with her, and make it agreeable." We could hardly realize, on rising the following morning, that only twelve miles of prairie intervened between us and _Chicago le Desire_, as I could not but name it.
We could look across the extended plain, and on its farthest verge were visible two tall trees, which my husband pointed out to me as the planting of his own hand, when a boy.

Already they had become so lofty as to serve as landmarks, and they were constantly in view as we travelled the beaten road.

I was continually repeating to myself, "There live the friends I am so longing to see! There will terminate all our trials and hardships!" A Mr.Wentworth joined us on the road, and of him we inquired after the welfare of the family, from whom we had, for a long time, received no intelligence.

When we reached Chicago, he took us to a little tavern at the forks of the river.