'Why, how could anybody promise me a thing before ever he saw me?
I call that a strange thing to ask a person.

No, to-day, while we were promenading; and I should hear him sing, he said.

He does admire his Chloe so.

Why, no wonder, is it, now?
She can do everything; knit, sew, sing, dance--and talk! She's never uneasy for a word.

She makes whole scenes of things go round you, like a picture peep-show, I tell her.