"You must consider me as the Aquarius of your domestic Zodiac.

I should like to be my father's camel-driver, if that were Jacob's well." I could not help smiling at his gay nonsense,--his presence had been so brightening, so comforting.

I had gone down to the spring sad and desponding.

I returned with a countenance so lighted up, a color so heightened, that my mother looked at me with surprise.
As soon as I had ministered to Peggy, who seemed mortified and ashamed because of her sickness, and distressed beyond measure at being waited upon.

I told my mother of my interview with Richard, of his kindness in carrying the water, the vision of the splendid carriage, of its beautiful occupants, the fitting up of the old Grandison Place, and all that Richard had related to me.
She listened with a troubled countenance.