This delighted them all, and before I left I was obliged to give every detail of my gorgeous attire.
It was about eleven o'clock when at last I tore myself away from this most attractive little family.

To live as they lived, to be interested in the things that interested them--for the house seemed filled with books and pictures--to love nature, to love each other, and to think well of their fellow-beings, even of the super-rich--seemed to me to be an object for which a man of my temperament should be willing to strive and thankful to win.

After meeting her parents I did not wonder that I had thought the slender girl so honest-hearted and so lovable.
It was true that I had thought that..