And I love dear old Hintock, AND THE PEOPLE IN IT, fifty times better than all the Continent.

But the scheme; I think it an enchanting notion, don't you, Giles ?" "It is well enough in one sense, but it will take yon away," said he, mollified.
"Only for a short time.

We should return in May." "Well, Miss Melbury, it is a question for your father." Winterborne walked with her nearly to her house.

He had awaited her coming, mainly with the view of mentioning to her his proposal to have a Christmas party; but homely Christmas gatherings in the venerable and jovial Hintock style seemed so primitive and uncouth beside the lofty matters of her converse and thought that he refrained.
As soon as she was gone he turned back towards the scene of his planting, and could not help saying to himself as he walked, that this engagement of his was a very unpromising business.

Her outing to-day had not improved it.