I never saw anything half so beautiful.

The dear old house is prettier than any new one that could be built, and the trees are so grand! And oh, Richard, I think the garden lying on the hillside there in the beautiful warm sun, with such royal flowers and fruit, is worth all the grape-houses and conservatories in the neighborhood.

Your sister took us to three or four of the neighboring places a week or two ago.

But I like this a hundred times the best.

I should think you would be sorry every moment that you have to spend away from it." "I hope one of these days to live here altogether," he said in a low tone.
It was so difficult for Richard to be unreserved that it is very likely this was the first time in his life that he had ever expressed this, the brightest hope he had.
I could fancy all these few words implied--a wife, children, a happy home in manhood where he had been a happy child.
"It belongs to Kilian and me, but it is understood I have the right to it when I am ready for it." "And your sister--it does not belong at all to her ?" "No, she only keeps house for us.