A SQUADRON IN THE DOWNS "My dear girls, all your courage is gone," said Admiral Darling to his daughters at luncheon, that same Monday; "departed perhaps with Lord Nelson and Frank.

I hate the new style of such come-and-go visits, as if there was no time for anything.

Directly a man knows the ways of the house, and you can take him easily, off he goes.

Just like Hurry, he never can stop quiet.

He talks as if peace was the joy of his life, and a quiet farm his paradise, and very likely he believes it.