"That's awfully charming of her." "Isn't it too dear ?" The thought of it, for Mrs.Brook, seemed fairly to open out vistas.

"The modern daughter!" "But not the ancient mother!" Mr.Cashmore smiled.
She shook her head with a world of accepted woe.

"'Give me back, give me back one hour of my youth'! Oh I haven't a single thrill left to answer a compliment.

I sit here now face to face with things as they are.

They come in their turn, I assure you--and they find me," Mrs.Brook sighed, "ready.