I think it would be pleasant to remember only that this great holiday of mine, which I have looked forward to so long, has really begun." "You have looked forward to coming to London so much ?" I asked.
"Yes!" she answered.

"I have lived a very quiet life, Capitaine Rotherby.

After the Sisters had finished with me--and I stayed at the school longer than any of the others--I went straight to the house of a friend of my uncle's, where I had only a _dame de compagnie_.
My uncle--he was so long coming, and the life was very dull.

But always he wrote to me, 'Some day I will take you to London!' Even when we were in Paris together he would tell me that." "Tell me," I asked, "what is your uncle's Christian name ?" "I have three uncles," she said, after a moment's hesitation,--"Maurice, Ferdinand, and Nicholas.

Nicholas lives all the time in South America.