What a sweet house it is! Everybody is happy in it, even Miss Quigley is happy, mamma.

What nice rooms! What pretty chintz! What a--oh, what a--comfortable sofa!" and she falls down on the sofa, which, truth to say, was the Rev.Charles Honeyman's luxurious sofa from Oxford, presented to him by young Cibber Wright of Christchurch, when that gentleman-commoner was eliminated from the University.
"The person of the house," mamma says, "hardly comes up to Dr.
Goodenough's description of her.

He says he remembers her a pretty little woman when her father was his private tutor." "She has grown very much since," says the girl.

And an explosion takes place from the sofa, where the little man is always ready to laugh at any joke, or anything like a joke, uttered by himself or by any of his family or friends.

As for Doctor Goodenough, he says laughing has saved that boy's life.
"She looks quite like a maid," continues the lady.