"I met them all on their way to the depot; but I wouldn't feel so badly.

Jenny will come again, and besides that, I've got some real good news to tell you.
"About Ella ?" said Mary.
"No, not about Ella, but about myself; I'm coming here to live with you." "Coming here to live!" repeated Mary with astonishment.

"What for?
Are your folks all dead ?" Billy smiled and answered, "Not quite so bad as that.

I went to school here two years ago, and I know I learned more than I ever did at home in two seasons.

The boys, when Henry Lincoln is away, don't act half as badly as they do in the village; and then they usually have a lady teacher, because it's cheaper I suppose, for they don't pay them half as much as they do gentlemen, and I think they are a great deal the best.