I am pleased to know that you were so much an object of his attentions as your remarks lead me to infer.

I know that you will make him a good wife; one of whom he can never be ashamed; and I know that a union with him will give you a proud position." "Will you waive the subject, at present, dear aunt ?" said Jessie, with a pleading look, at the same time glancing covertly towards her cousins, who were drinking in every word with girlish eagerness.
"Oh, by all means," answered Mrs.Loring, "if it is in the least annoying.

I was forgetting myself in the interest felt for your welfare." "And so Mr.Dexter showed you marked attentions last evening ?" said Jessie's aunt, joining her in the sitting-room, after Amanda and Dora had left for school.
"Did I say so, aunt ?" inquired Jessie, looking into her relative's face.
"You said enough to make the inference clear, my child." "Well, Aunt Phoebe, he was attentive--more so, by a great deal, than I desired!" "Than you desired!" There was unfeigned surprise in the voice of Mrs.Loring.

"What do you mean, Jessie ?" "The man's position is all well enough; but the man himself is not altogether to my liking." "You must have grown remarkably fastidious all at once.

Why, girl! there isn't a handsomer man to be found anywhere.