It was rather a trial of her discretion to have Mr.Ernescliffe here while I was upstairs, and very well she seems to have come out of it.

Poor Richard's last disappointment is still our chief trouble.

He has been working hard with a tutor all through the vacation, and has not even come home to see his new sister, on his way to Oxford.

He had made a resolution that he would not come to us till he had passed, and his father thought it best that it should be kept.

I hope he will succeed next time, but his nervousness renders it still more doubtful.