Sit down here beside me, and show me, I pray, some of those bright tints that I am longing to gaze on.' 'There's not room for both of us on that bench.' 'Ample room; we shall sit the closer.' 'No, Cousin Dick; give me your arm and we'll take a stroll together.' 'Which way shall it be ?' 'You shall choose, cousin.' 'If I have the choice, then, I'll carry you off, Nina, for I'm thinking of bidding good-bye to the old house and all within it.' 'I don't think I'll consent that far,' said she, smiling.

'I have had my experience of what it is to be without a home, or something very nearly that.

I'll not willingly recall the sensation.

But what has put such gloomy thoughts in your head?
What, or rather who is driving you to this ?' 'My father, Nina, my father!' 'This is past my comprehending.' 'I'll make it very intelligible.

My father, by way of curbing my extravagance, tells me I must give up all pretension to the life of a gentleman, and go into an office as a clerk.