If you please, I should like to know how you have been feeling." With these words Insie came quite close up to his side, and looked at him so that he could hardly speak.

"You may say it in a whisper, if you like," she said; "there is nobody coming for at least three hours, and so you may say it in a whisper." "Then I will tell you; it was just like this.

You know that I began to think how beautiful you were at the very first time I looked at you.

But you could not expect me so to love you all at once as I love you now, dear Insie." "I can not understand any meaning in such things." But she took a little distance, quite as if she did.
"Well, I went away without thinking very much, because I had a bad place in my knee--a blue place bigger than the new half crown, where you saw that the pony kicked me.

I had him up, and thrashed him, when I got home; but that has got nothing to do with it--only that I made him know who was his master.