It is very beautiful, that feeling; and when a girl surprises it in any mother's eyes it makes her heart beat faster, as in the presence of something sacred, which she can understand only because she is a woman, and experience is foreshadowed in intuition.
The Honourable Arthur had sent us a dozen London dailies and weeklies, and we fell into an idle discussion of their contents over the teacups.
I had found an 'exchange column' which was as interesting as it was novel, and I told Francesca it seemed to me that if we managed wisely we could rid ourselves of all our useless belongings, and gradually amass a collection of the English articles we most desired.

"Here is an opportunity, for instance," I said, and I read aloud-"'S.G., of Kensington, will post 'Woman' three days old regularly for a box of cut flowers.'" "Rather young," said Mr.Beresford, "or I'd answer that advertisement myself." I wanted to tell him I didn't suppose that he could find anything too young for his taste, but I didn't dare.
"Salemina adores cats," I went on.

"How is this, Sally, dear ?-- 'A handsome orange male Persian cat, also a tabby, immense coat, brushes and frills, is offered in exchange for an electro-plated revolving covered dish or an Allen's Vapour Bath.'" "I should like the cat, but alas! I have no covered dish," sighed Salemina.
"Buy one," suggested Mr.Beresford.

"Even then you'd be getting a bargain.

Do you understand that you receive the male orange cat for the dish, and the frilled tabby for the bath, or do you get both in exchange for either of these articles?
Read on, Miss Hamilton." "Very well, here is one for Francesca-"'A harmonium with seven stops is offered in exchange for a really good Plymouth cockerel hatched in May.'" "I should want to know when the harmonium was hatched," said Francesca prudently.