What a bright-looking fellow he is! It does one good to see him." And the earl followed with his eyes the graceful steed and equally graceful rider, caracoling in front of the Castle window.
Helen said nothing.
"I think," he continued, "that the next best thing to being happy one's self is to be able to make other people so.

Perhaps that may be the sort of happiness they have in the next world.

I often speculate about it, and wonder what sort of creature I shall find myself there.

But." added he, abruptly, "now to business.

You will be my secretary this morning instead of Bruce ?" "Willingly;" for, though she too, like Malcolm, had been a little displaced by this charming cousin, there was not an atom of jealousy in her nature.