"Could it be English?
I do not know; it did not sound like the English the gentleman and lady speak when talking to each other.

But she brought us here, and from the motions she made while talking I think she said these two rooms were for us to use." "These rooms for us?
these beautiful rooms ?" exclaimed Alma in astonishment and delight, glancing about upon the neat, tasteful, even elegant appointments of the one in which they were, then hastening into the other to find it in no way inferior to the first.

"Ah, how lovely!" she cried; "see the pretty furniture, the white curtains trimmed with lace, the bed all white and looking, oh, so comfortable! everything so clean, so fair and sweet!" "Yes, yes," said Christine, tears trembling in her eyes; "so far better than we ever dreamed.

But it may be only for to-night; to-morrow, perhaps, we may be consigned to lodgings not half so good.

Ah, I hear steps on the stairs; they will be bringing our supper.