It is not necessary to quarrel with our right." "No," said Ada, "but it may be better to forget all about it." "Well, well," cried Richard, "then we will forget all about it! We consign the whole thing to oblivion.

Dame Durden puts on her approving face, and it's done!" "Dame Durden's approving face," said I, looking out of the box in which I was packing his books, "was not very visible when you called it by that name; but it does approve, and she thinks you can't do better." So, Richard said there was an end of it, and immediately began, on no other foundation, to build as many castles in the air as would man the Great Wall of China.

He went away in high spirits.

Ada and I, prepared to miss him very much, commenced our quieter career.
On our arrival in London, we had called with Mr.Jarndyce at Mrs.
Jellyby's but had not been so fortunate as to find her at home.

It appeared that she had gone somewhere to a tea-drinking and had taken Miss Jellyby with her.