I've always had a longing to spend a winter there visiting my sister Isa, and my cousins Elsie and Molly.

Cal and Art say, perhaps one or both of them may go on to spend two or three weeks this winter; and in that case I shall go along." "Perhaps we may go at the same time, and what a nice party we will make!" said Zoe.

"There," glancing from the window, "I see my husband coming, and I want to run out and speak to him.

Will you excuse me a moment ?" and scarcely waiting for a reply, she ran gayly away.
Meeting Edward on the threshold, "I have no lessons to recite this time," she said; "but you are not to scold, because I've been prevented from studying by company.

Ella is spending the day with me." "Ah! I hope you have had a pleasant time together--not too much troubled by fear of a lecture from the old tyrant who bears your lessons," he said laughingly, as he bent his head to press a kiss of ardent affection upon the rosy lips she held up to him.
"No," she laughed in return: "I'm not a bit afraid of him." Zoe had feared the hours when Edward was unavoidably absent from her side would be very lonely now while the other members of the Ion family were away; but she did not find it so; her studies, and the work of making various pretty things for Christmas gifts, keeping her very busy.
And, when he was with her, time flew on very rapid wings.