Graydon, you have already found that out." "I have found that I had better accept just what you please to be, and fully admit your right to be just what you please," he answered, ruefully.
"What a lovely and reasonable frame of mind!" Mrs.Muir remarked.
"Truly, Miss Wildmere is to be congratulated.

You have only to stick to such a disposition, and peace will last longer than the moon." "Oh, Miss Wildmere will prove a rose without a thorn," Madge added, laughing, while under Mr.Muir's eye her face paled perceptibly.
"There will never be anything problematical in her single-minded devotion.

She has been well and discreetly brought up, and finished by the best society, while poor me!--I had to fly in the face of fate like a virago, and scramble up the best I could in Western wilds.

Oh, well, Graydon, don't be alarmed.

I'll be a good fellow if you'll take me out riding occasionally." He began to laugh, and she continued: "I saw you frown when I began my wicked speech.