I sometimes wish I was like Ellen, always unruffled, always calm and collected.

You will go through the world better than I shall, my quiet cousin." "Shall I ?" replied Ellen, faintly smiling.

But Mrs.Hamilton could perceive that which the thoughtless Emmeline regarded not, a deep crimson staining apparently with pain the pale fair cheek of her niece, and she thought not with her daughter.
"And how much longer does Ned intend being away from us ?" demanded Emmeline, after a long pause.
"He cannot give us any idea yet," answered her mother; "perhaps some time next year.

They were to cruise off the shores of South America these autumnal months, and winter, Edward thinks, off Buenos Ayres.

He is pleased at this, as he will see so very much more of the New World than he expected, when he left us.'" "What an entertaining companion he will be when he returns," exclaimed Emmeline.
"Or rather ought to be, Emmeline," remarked Ellen, quietly.
"Now, what an insinuation! Ellen, you are too bad to-night, and against your brother, of all persons in the world.