And how, if you please, did you leave your aunt?
I hope you conveyed to her my thanks for her thoughtfulness, and my apologies for detaining you as well ?" "Yes, sir," the young man answered, "I did.

They are both rejoiced that I can be of any service." Gifford had come to the side of the bed, and, slipping his strong young arm under Mr.Denner's head, lifted him that he might take with greater ease the medicine he held in a little slender-stemmed glass.

"Ah," said Mr.Denner, between a sigh and a groan, as Gifford laid him down again, "how gentle you are! There is a look in your face, sometimes, of one of your aunts, sir; not, I think, Miss Deborah.

I have thought much, since I--I knew my condition, Gifford, of my wish that your aunt Deborah should have the miniature of my little sister.

I still wish it.