They were good little things; and, as you know, I always prefer having children about me at meal-times.

I think it makes them little gentlemen and gentlewomen in a manner that nothing else will.

If I had a house"-- she stopped and blushed deeply for having let old things--ah! they seemed so very old, and far back now--make her forget the present.

"I mean, I should wish in my house to have the children always accustomed to come to the parents' table as soon as they were old enough to handle a knife and fork." "Should you ?" said Dr.Grey, quite startling her, for she thought he had not been attending to the conversation.

"Then we will have Titia and Atty to breakfast with us to-morrow." Thus, without any fuss the great revolution was made; so quickly, so completely, that even Miss Gascoigne was dumb-foundered.