It was an experience which would prove a mine of gold in his memory, rich enough to furnish for years the gilding to his modest day-dreams.

Beauty, like wealth, should make its owners generous.

It is a gracious thing in fair women at times to make largesse of their beauty, bestowing its light more freely on tongue-tied, timid adorers than on their bolder suitors, giving to them who dare not ask.

Their beauty never can seem more precious to women than when for charity's sake they brighten with its lustre the eyes of shy and retiring admirers.
As Henry was ruefully meditating upon the uncertainty of the sex, and debating the probability that Madeline had called him to swing her for the express purpose of getting a chance to snub him, Ida Lewis came to him, and said-- "Mr.Burr, we're getting up a game of croquet.

Won't you play ?" "If I can be on your side," he answered, civilly.
He knew the girl's liking for him, and was always kind to her.