But I'm delighted to find that you are to be with us." "I generally go to my aunt about this time of the year." "It is very good-natured of you." Then he asked after her father, and she told him of Mr.Belton's visit, telling him nothing--as the reader will hardly require to be told--of Mr.Belton's offer.

And so, by degrees, they fell into close and intimate conversation.
"I am so glad, for your father's sake!" said the captain, with sympathetic voice, speaking still of Mr.Belton's visit.
"That's what I feel, of course." "It is just as it should be, as he stands in that position to the property.

And so he is a nice sort of fellow, is he ?" "Nice is no word for him.

He is perfect!" "Dear me! This is terrible! You remember that they hated some old Greek patriot when they could find no fault in him ?" "I'll defy you to hate my cousin Will." "What sort of looking man is he ?" "Extremely handsome;--at least I should say so." "Then I certainly must hate him.

And clever ?" "Well;--not what you would call clever.