She always insists upon my keeping such early hours," was 'Lina's very filial and childlike reply, as she walked up to mamma, not to ask permission, but to whisper rather peremptorily, "Dr.Richards wishes me to walk with him, and as you are tired, you may as well go to bed!" Meantime the doctor and 'Lina were walking up and down the long piazza, chatting gayly, and attracting much attention from 'Lina's loud manner of talking and laughing.
"By the way, I've called on Miss Johnson, at the Columbian," she said.
"Beautiful, isn't she ?" "Ra-ather pretty, some would think," and the doctor had an uncomfortable consciousness of the refusal in his vest pocket.
If Alice had told.

But no, he knew her better than that.

He could trust her on that score, and so the dastardly coward affected to sneer at what he called her primness, charging 'Lina to be careful what she did, if she did not want a lecture, and asking if there were any ragged children in Kentucky, as she would not be happy unless she was running a Sunday school! "She can teach the negroes! Capital!" and 'Lina laughed so loudly that Mrs.Richards joined them, laughing, too, at what she did not know, only--Miss Worthington had such spirits; it did one good; and she wished Anna was there to be enlivened.
"Write to her, John, won't you ?" John mentally thought it doubtful.

Anna and 'Lina would never assimilate, and he would rather not have his pet sister's opinion to combat until his own was fully made up.
"Anna--oh, yes!" 'Lina exclaimed.

"Miss Johnson spoke of her as the sweetest lady she ever saw.