She is fair rather than dark, has expressive eyes, and a nice mouth.

Altogether, had I a daughter, I should be well content if she resembled your Annie.

I shall, I can assure you, do my best to supply the place of a mother to her, until I receive a letter from you, and shall part from her with regret.

She is, of course, at present entirely uneducated, but she has already begun to learn with me, and as she is quick and intelligent I hope that, before I resign my charge, her deficiencies will be so far repaired that she will be able to pass muster, in all ordinary matters." "You will be back before I go, won't you, Dick ?" Annie said, as she sat by his side on a seat in the garden, on the evening before he was to start.
"I think so," he said.

"We can calculate on your being here ten months, anyhow.