Don't let her meddle with any of my books and things." "No; you need not be afraid.

I have put them all into your room.

I myself cleared your rubbish out of the box closet." "The box-closet! Now, really, I can't stand--" "She is to sleep in the box-closet; where else could she sleep ?" said Hilary, resolutely, though inly quaking a little; for somehow, the merry, handsome, rather exacting lad bad acquired considerable influence in this household of women.

"You must put up with the loss of your 'den.' Ascott; it would be a great shame if you did not, for the sake of Aunt Johanna and the rest of us." "Um!" grumbled the boy, who, though he was not a bad fellow at heart, had a boy's dislike to "putting up" with the slightest inconvenience.
"Well, it won't last long.

I shall be off shortly.