Major Hockin unkind to a poor girl like you!" "The last thing I wish to claim is any body's pity," I answered, less humbly than I should have spoken, though the pride was only in my tone, perhaps.

"If people choose to pity me, they are very good, and I am not at all offended, because--because they can not help it, perhaps, from not knowing any thing about me.

I have nothing whatever to be pitied for, except that I have lost my father, and have nobody left to care for me, except Uncle Sam in America." "Your Uncle Sam, as you call him, seems to be a very wonderful man, Erema," said Mrs.Hockin, craftily, so far as there could be any craft in her; "I never saw him--a great loss on my part.

But the Major went up to meet him somewhere, and came home with the stock of his best tie broken, and two buttons gone from his waistcoat.

Does Uncle Sam make people laugh so much?
or is it that he has some extraordinary gift of inducing people to taste whiskey?
My husband is a very--most abstemious man, as you must be well aware, Miss Wood, or we never should have been as we are, I am sure.