It seems so long since we have met, I expected to have seen you quite bent and hoary with age.
Do tell me something of your transatlantic experience." While she was speaking in that peculiar tone of voice which reminded one of a distant clarion, Richard Clyde came to me on the other side, and seeing that she wished to engage the conversation of Ernest, which she probably thought I had engrossed too long, I took the offered arm of Richard and returned to the drawing-room.

Seeing a table covered with engravings, I directed our steps there, that subjects of conversation might be suggested independent of ourselves.
"How exquisite these are!" I exclaimed, taking up the first within my reach and expatiating on its beauties, without really comprehending one with my preoccupied and distant thoughts.

"These Italian landscapes are always charming." "I believe that is a picture of the Boston Common," said he, smiling at my mistake; "but surely no Italian landscape can boast of such magnificent trees and such breadth of verdure.

It is a whole casket of emeralds set in the granite heart of a great city.

And see in the centre that pure, sparkling diamond, sending out such rays of coolness and delight,--I wonder you did not recognize it." "I have seen it only in winter, when the trees exhibited their wintry dreariness, and little boys were skating on the diamond surface of that frozen water.