I so well like it all.

Perhaps--ah--perhaps I prefer the--the ah--the middle portion." "Ah, you like that part which tells the story of Mary of Burgundy," returned Aunt Dorothy.

"Oh, Malcolm, I know upon what theme you are always thinking--the ladies, the ladies." "Can the fair Lady Crawford chide me for that ?" my second self responded in a gallant style of which I was really proud.

"She who has caused so much of that sort of thought surely must know that a gentleman's mind cannot be better employed than--" "Malcolm, you are incorrigible.

But it is well for a gentleman to keep in practice in such matters, even though he have but an old lady to practise on." "They like it, even if it be only practice, don't they ?" said Dorothy, full of the spirit of mischief.
"I thank you for nothing, Sir Malcolm Vernon," retorted Aunt Dorothy with a toss of her head.