He spoke out to-night." "He offered himself ?" "Certainly." "And you took him ?" "Of course I did: I should be a fool not to." "Oh, so I think, decidedly!" said Belle, kissing her friend in a rapture.

"You dear creature! how nice! it's splendid!" Lillie took the embrace with her usual sweet composure, and turned to her looking-glass, and began taking down her hair for the night.

It will be perceived that this young lady was not overcome with emotion, but in a perfectly collected state of mind.
"He's a little bald, and getting rather stout," she said reflectively, "but he'll do." "I never saw a creature so dead in love as he is," said Belle.
A quiet smile passed over the soft, peach-blow cheeks as Lillie answered,-- "Oh, dear, yes! He perfectly worships the ground I tread on." "Lil, you fortunate creature, you! Positively it's the best match that there has been about here this summer.

He's rich, of an old, respectable family; and then he has good principles, you know, and all that," said Belle.
"I think he's nice myself," said Lillie, as she stood brushing out a golden tangle of curls.

"Dear me!" she added, "how much better he is than that Danforth! Really, Danforth was a little too horrid: his teeth were dreadful.