I longed to ask Betsy some questions which had been crowding into my mind as she spoke, and while I lay awake at night; however, I was obliged to yield to the business of the morning, and the good Major's zeal and keen knowledge of the world; and he really gave me no time to think.
"Yes, I understand all that as well as if I had heard every word of it," he said, when he had led me helpless into the Hansom cab he came in, and had slammed down the flood-gates in front of us.

"You must never think twice of what old women say" (Mrs.Strouss was some twenty years younger than himself); "they always go prating and finding mares'-nests, and then they always cry.

Now did she cry, Erema ?" I would have given a hundred dollars to be able to say, "No, not one drop;" but the truth was against me, and I said, "How could she help it ?" "Exactly!" the Major exclaimed, so loudly that the cabman thought he was ordered to stop.

"No, go on, cabby, if your horse can do it.

My dear, I beg your pardon, but you are so very simple! You have not been among the eye-openers of the west.