Here we are, and I mean to enjoy it." His companion turned away with an impatient step, but presently came back.

"High spirits are doubtless an excellent thing," she said; "but you give one too much of them, and I can't see that they have done you any good." The young man stared, with lifted eyebrows, smiling; he tapped his handsome nose with his pencil.

"They have made me happy!" "That was the least they could do; they have made you nothing else.

You have gone through life thanking fortune for such very small favors that she has never put herself to any trouble for you." "She must have put herself to a little, I think, to present me with so admirable a sister." "Be serious, Felix.

You forget that I am your elder." "With a sister, then, so elderly!" rejoined Felix, laughing.