'But I ought to grow a youth again, like the rest, now I am in my native air.' They came to a narrow brook, not wider than a man's stride, and Miss De Stancy halted on the edge.
'Why, Lottie, you used to jump it easily enough,' said her brother.

'But we won't make her do it now.' He took her in his arms, and lifted her over, giving her a gratuitous ride for some additional yards, and saying, 'You are not a pound heavier, Lott, than you were at ten years old....

What do you think of the country here, Mr.Somerset?
Are you going to stay long ?' 'I think very well of it,' said Somerset.

'But I leave to-morrow morning, which makes it necessary that I turn back in a minute or two from walking with you.' 'That's a disappointment.

I had hoped you were going to finish out the autumn with shooting.