To- day he is due to come here.

It is a great boon to have such an opportunity for getting the boys educated, and of course it helps him to earn a living." "And the society of the place ?" asked the Frenchman.
His hostess laughed.
"I must admit it has to be looked for with a strong pair of field-glasses," she said; "it is almost as difficult to get a good bridge four together as it would have been to get up a tennis tournament or a subscription dance in our particular corner of England.

One has to ignore distances and forget fatigue if one wants to be gregarious even on a limited scale.

There are one or two officials who are our chief social mainstays, but the difficulty is to muster the few available souls under the same roof at the same moment.

A road will be impassable in one quarter, a pony will be lame in another, a stress of work will prevent some one else from coming, and another may be down with a touch of fever.
When my little girl gave a birthday party here her only little girl guest had come twelve miles to attend it.