Doctor John came along with Rex shinin' like a new muff, and I was ashamed to let him see Meg.

He's comin' up to see you to-night, Lucy, darlin'," and she bent forward and tapped the girl's shoulder to accentuate the importance of the information.
Lucy cut her eye in a roguish way and twisted her pretty head around until she could look into Jane's eyes.
"Who do you think he's coming to see, sister ?" "Why, you, you little goose.

They're all coming--Uncle Ephraim has sent over every day to find out when you would be home, and Bart Holt was here early this morning, and will be back to-night." "What does Bart Holt look like ?"--she had stopped in her walk to pluck a spray of lilac blossoms.

"I haven't seen him for years; I hear he's another one of your beaux," she added, tucking the flowers into Jane's belt.

"There, sister, that's just your color; that's what that gray dress needs.