Then her eye caught a far-off line of smoke.

That must be a steamer coming from a foreign country; perhaps from France, which was--how believe it ?--yonder across the blue vast.
You have watched with interest some close-folded bud; one day all promise is shut within those delicate sepals, and on the next, for the fulness of time has come, you find the very flower with its glow and its perfume.

So it sometimes happens that a human soul finds its season, and at a touch expands to wonderful new life.
Mrs.Ormonde perceived at breakfast that Thyrza desired nothing more than to be left to pass her day in freedom.

So she gave her visitor a little bag with provision against seaside appetite, and let her go forth till dinner-time; then again till the hour of tea.

In the evening Thyrza was again bidden to the drawing-room.