And directly I had made your acquaintance the other day it struck me that you would suit me so well.
Would you like to undertake it?
You might read to me, too, if desirable.

Will you think it over, and ask your parents if they are willing ?" "Oh yes," said Grace.

"I am almost sure they would be very glad." "You are so accomplished, I hear; I should be quite honored by such intellectual company." Grace, modestly blushing, deprecated any such idea.
"Do you keep up your lucubrations at Little Hintock ?" "Oh no.

Lucubrations are not unknown at Little Hintock; but they are not carried on by me." "What--another student in that retreat ?" "There is a surgeon lately come, and I have heard that he reads a great deal--I see his light sometimes through the trees late at night." "Oh yes--a doctor--I believe I was told of him.

It is a strange place for him to settle in." "It is a convenient centre for a practice, they say.