Is that YOUR branch ?" A question which provoked much candid hilarity on the part of the two ladies; on the subsidence of which their entertainer, glancing at his daughter, remarked that she had grown.
"Yes, but I think she has finished.

She'll remain--not big," said the French sister.
"I'm not sorry.

I prefer women like books--very good and not too long.
But I know," the gentleman said, "no particular reason why my child should be short." The nun gave a temperate shrug, as if to intimate that such things might be beyond our knowledge.

"She's in very good health; that's the best thing." "Yes, she looks sound." And the young girl's father watched her a moment.

"What do you see in the garden ?" he asked in French.
"I see many flowers," she replied in a sweet, small voice and with an accent as good as his own.
"Yes, but not many good ones.