"My watch keeps time to a minute, Sir, and its master to a second.

Well, I hope you have settled all questions of finance, and endowed my young maid with a fortune." "So far from that," Mr.Shovelin replied, in a tone very different from that he used to me, "we have not even said one word of business; all that has been left for your return.

Am I to understand that you are by appointment or relationship the guardian of this young lady ?" "God forbid!" cried Major Hockin, shortly.

I thought it very rude of him, yet I could not help smiling to see how he threw his glasses up and lifted his wiry crest of hair.

"Not that she is bad, I mean, but good, very good; indeed, I may say the very best girl ever known outside of my own family.