To the advantages of this project he was, however, equally insensible.

When she urged it on him, he said, "Why, aunty, one would say you were anxious to get rid of me.

Don't we get on well together?
Have you taken a dislike to me?
I'm sure I'm very comfortable here.

I don't want to do anything different, or to go off anywhere.

Why won't you let me stay with you ?" And so she had to let the matter drop.
The truth was she had become anxious to get him away; but it was on his account, not hers.
In putting his room to rights one day since his return from college she had come upon a scrap of paper containing some verses addressed "To Ida." Paul had rather a pretty knack at turning rhymes, and the tears came to Miss Ludington's eyes as she read these lines.