And his daughter wrote a book, and they said she was but a very young lady, and nothing but a music-master's daughter; so why should not I try ?" "Well ?" "Well! I got paper and half-a-hundred good pens, a bottle of ink, all ready--" "And then--" "O, it ended in my having nothing to say, when I sat down to write.

But sometimes, when I get hold of a book, I wonder why I let such a poor reason stop me.

It does not others." "But I think it was very well it did, Miss Galindo," said her ladyship.
"I am extremely against women usurping men's employments, as they are very apt to do.

But perhaps, after all, the notion of writing a book improved your hand.

It is one of the most legible I ever saw." "I despise z's without tails," said Miss Galindo, with a good deal of gratified pride at my lady's praise.