Annie, show me that letter again.' 'Not now, mama,' she pleaded in a low tone.
'My dear, you absolutely are, on some subjects, one of the most ridiculous persons in the world,' returned her mother, 'and perhaps the most unnatural to the claims of your own family.

We never should have heard of the letter at all, I believe, unless I had asked for it myself.
Do you call that confidence, my love, towards Doctor Strong?
I am surprised.

You ought to know better.' The letter was reluctantly produced; and as I handed it to the old lady, I saw how the unwilling hand from which I took it, trembled.
'Now let us see,' said Mrs.Markleham, putting her glass to her eye, 'where the passage is.

"The remembrance of old times, my dearest Annie"-- and so forth--it's not there.

"The amiable old Proctor"-- who's he?
Dear me, Annie, how illegibly your cousin Maldon writes, and how stupid I am! "Doctor," of course.