I told him he looked like a market gardener, collecting flowers from every place he went to.

I dragged him away several times, and told him he would certainly be taken for a country booby, and scolded him for demeaning his rank with such ignoble pleasures, and what wise answer do you think he made me ?" "A very excellent one, I have no doubt." "Or it would not come from such a learned personage, Miss Hamilton.
Really it was so philosophic, I was obliged to learn it as a lesson to retain it.

That he, superior as he deemed himself, and that wild flower which he tended with so much care, were alike the work of Infinite Wisdom, and as such, the study of the one could not demean the other.

I stared at him, and for the space of a week dubbed him the Preaching Pilgrim; but I was soon tired of that, and resumed his former one, which comprises all.

I wonder at what letter the walking volume will be opened at his mother's fete ?" "I should imagine B," said Caroline, smiling.
"B--B--what does B stand for?
I have forgotten how to spell--let me see.
Ah! I have it,--excellent, admirable! Miss Hamilton.