I congratulate your niece on her choice of a life companion.

There is no better blood in Georgia.

I would be very pleased to hear more of your father, Captain West.

I have not met him for several years." West, by this time, thoroughly impressed with the spirit of the occasion, passed the ensuing evening rather pleasantly, although obliged to be always on his guard against any incautious remark, and keenly interested in all that was occurring about him.

He found the company rather pleasant and entertaining, although not quite able to gauge the real feelings of Mr.Percival Coolidge, who he imagined was not altogether satisfied with the state of affairs just revealed.