At last he was called away by a man from the stable, who brought some alarming account of his beloved Tom or Jerry.

If I had been his bride at the altar, I am sure he would have left me; being only a new and very faintly-lighted flame, he hurried off with scarcely an apology.
I sat down in a piazza-chair, just outside the window at which we had been sitting.

I looked in at the window, but no one could see me, from the position of my chair.
Presently Mr.Langenau left the piano, and Mary Leighton, talking to him with effusion, walked across the room beside him, and took her seat at this very window.

He did not sit down, but stood before her with his hat in his hand, as if he only awaited a favorable pause to go away.
"Ah, where did Pauline go ?" she said, glancing around.

"But I suppose we must excuse her, for to-night at least, as he has just come home.