Albert did not feel sure that it might not become a life-work with him.

It would be a delightful thing to study microscopic botany forever, if he could have Helen Minorkey to listen to his enthusiastic expositions.

From her science the transition to his was easy, and they studied under every combination of glasses the beautiful lace of a dragon-fly's wing, and the irregular spots on a drab grasshopper which ran by chance half-across one of his eyes.

The thrifty landlord had twice looked in at the door in hope of finding the parlor empty, intending in which case to put out the lamp.
But I can not tell how long this enthusiastic pursuit of scientific knowledge might have lasted had not Mr.Minorkey been seized with one of his dying spells.

When the message was brought by a Norwegian servant-girl, whose white hair fairly stood up with fright, Mr.Charlton was very much shocked, but Miss Minorkey did not for a moment lose her self-possession.