"I've been there with aunt Elsie, and it's just a lovely place! It has a rather neglected look now; but it wouldn't take long to remedy that, and then it would be quite as handsome as Ion or Fairview, or any other place about here.

Aren't you happy, Lu ?" "I shall be if papa gets it; but the best thing of all is, that he is to be with us all the time." "Yes, of course," sighed Evelyn, thinking of the happy days when she had her father with her.

"Lu," she said presently, "I know you are not to be sent away; but where are you to go to school ?" "To papa," replied Lulu, with a glad look and smile.
Evelyn sighed again.

"The only part I regret," she remarked, "is that we have to give up being together in our studies,--you and I.Unless," she added the next moment, as if struck by a sudden thought, "your father would take me as a pupil too.

But I wouldn't dare to ask it." "I would," said Max: "I dare ask papa almost any thing,--unless it was leave to do something wrong,--and I'll undertake to sound him on the subject." "I'm not afraid to ask him, either," said Lulu; "and he's so kind, I do believe he'll say yes, or at least that he'll do it if everybody else is agreed.