He seems perfectly unprepared for that." "Yes, yes--but I am amused that he should have seen so far into my feelings.

What has he been judging by ?--I am not conscious of any difference in my spirits or conversation that could prepare him at this time for my marrying any more than at another .-- But it was so, I suppose.

I dare say there was a difference when I was staying with them the other day.

I believe I did not play with the children quite so much as usual.

I remember one evening the poor boys saying, 'Uncle seems always tired now.'" The time was coming when the news must spread farther, and other persons' reception of it tried.