I didn't see that you looked so very different.
To be sure the roses in your cheeks have turned into rosettes; but rosettes are very nice, and they're much more permanent; I prefer them; they will keep in any climate." She suffered his mockery with an appreciative sigh.

"Yes, our age caricatures our youth, doesn't it ?" "I don't think it gets much fun out of it," he assented.
"No; but it can't help it.

I used to rebel against it when it first began.

I did enjoy being young." "You did, my dear," he said, taking her hand tenderly; she withdrew it, because though she could bear his sympathy, her New England nature could not bear its expression.

"And so did I; and we were both young a long time.