But I wish I had known Priorsford as it was in my mother's young days, when the French prisoners were here.

The genteel supper-parties and assemblies must have been vastly entertaining.

It has changed even in my day.

I don't want to repeat the old folks' litany, 'No times like the old times,' but it does seem to me--or is it only distance lending enchantment ?--that the people I used to know were more human, more interesting; there was less worship of money, less running after the great ones of the earth, certainly less vulgarity.

We were content with less, and happier." "But, Mrs.Hope," said Pamela, laying down her cup, "this is most depressing hearing.