"I hope that you'll not seek to deprive the sister, who I presume is a very old woman, of the pleasure of sheltering one so closely related to her.

The trip may be fatal, and yet it might be a benefit.

At any rate don't advise Brooks not to let her go." "Oh, it's nothing to me," Witherspoon replied, "and I didn't suppose that it was so much to the rest of you.

How I do miss that old man!" he added after musing for a few moments.

"The peculiar laugh he had when pleased became a very distressing cough whenever he fancied that his expenses were running too high, and every day I am startled by some noise that sounds like his hack, hack! And just as frequently I hear his good-humored ha, ha! He had never gone away during the summer, but he told me that this summer he was going to a watering-place and enjoy himself.