I shall bring my dinner with me; and you shall have the first help, and I will carve.

But I should like one thing before I go; and it is the first time I ever asked anybody, though they ask me often enough, I can tell you." "What would you like?
You seem to me to be always wanting something." "I should like very much--very much indeed--just to give you one kiss, Insie." "It can not be thought of for a moment," she replied; "and the first time of my ever seeing you, Sir!" Before he could reason in favor of a privilege which goes proverbially by favor, the young maid was gone upon the winding path, with the pitcher truly balanced on her well-tressed head.

Then Pet sat down and watched her; and she turned round in the distance, and waved him a kiss at decorous interval.
Not more than three days after this, Mrs.Carnaby came into the drawing-room with a hasty step, and a web of wrinkles upon her generally smooth, white forehead.
"Eliza," asked her sister, "what has put you out so?
That chair is not very strong, and you are rather heavy.

Do you call that gracefully sinking on a seat, as we used to learn the way to do at school ?" "No, I do not call it anything of the kind.

And if I am heavy, I only keep my heart in countenance, Philippa.