I want to tell her so; but I lose my head when I try, and don't care to make a fool of myself.

Thought you might suggest some pretty way; you read so much poetry and are so romantic.' Demi tried to express himself clearly, but forgot his dignity and his usual reserve in the sweet perplexity of his love, and asked his little sister to teach him how to put the question which a single word can answer.

The arrival of his happy cousins had scattered all his wise plans and brave resolutions to wait still longer.

The Christmas play had given him courage to hope, and the oration today had filled him with tender pride; but the sight of those blooming brides and beaming grooms was too much for him, and he panted to secure his Alice without an hour's delay.

Daisy was his confidante in all things but this; a brotherly feeling of sympathy had kept him from telling her his hopes, because her own were forbidden.