Seems as though something troubled him; and what is very strange, he never speaks of you, unless I do first.

You've no idea how handsome he is.

To be sure, he hasn't the air of George Moreland, and doesn't dress as elegantly, but I think he's finer looking.

Ever so many girls at Ida's party asked who he was, and said 'twas a pity he wasn't rich, but that wouldn't make any difference with me,--I'd have him just as soon as though he was wealthy.
"How mother would go on if she should see this! But I don't care,--I like Billy Bender, and I can't help it, and _entre nous_, I believe he likes me better than he did! But I must stop now, for Lizzie Upton has called for me to go with her and see a poor blind woman in one of the back alleys." From this extract it will be seen that Jenny, though seventeen years of age, was the same open-hearted, childlike creature as ever.

She loved Billy Bender, and she didn't care who knew it.