I have formed no plans for the evening.

I was just about to ask you what there was best worth seeing or hearing in the Crescent City." "If I should tell you I thought there was nothing better worth seeing than my daughters, you would perhaps excuse a father's partiality," rejoined Mr.Royal.
"Your daughters!" exclaimed his companion, in a tone of surprise.

"I never heard that you were married." A shadow of embarrassment passed over the merchant's face, as he replied, "Their mother was a Spanish lady,--a stranger here,--and she formed no acquaintance.

She was a woman of a great heart and of rare beauty.

Nothing can ever make up her loss to me; but all the joy that remains in life is centred in the daughters she has left me.