Penini's cheeks are red as apples, and if we avoid the sun, and the wind, and the damp, and, above all if God takes care of us, we shall do excellently.
_I_, of course, am in a flourishing condition; walk out nearly every day and scarcely cough at all.

Which isn't enough for me, you see.

Dear friend, we have not set foot in the Vatican.

Oh, barbarians! But we have seen Mrs.Kemble, and I am as enchanted as I ought to be, and even, perhaps, a little more.

She has been very kind and gracious to me; she was to have spent an evening with us three days since, but something intervened.