We were a happy and gay family, and I had then more pride and higher spirits than you would probably give me credit for now.
'I was visiting a friend who had married the head-master of one of our principal grammar schools.

Amongst his tutors there was a young man of whom he was very fond, and who used to be a good deal with his family after the duties of the day were over.

It is just possible that he was a countryman of yours, for his name was Jones.' 'Oh, Serena! you don't mean to say that you fell in love with a Jones in England, and then came into Wales to be in the midst of that very ancient and numerous family.' 'I have not come to the love part yet, Freda.

He was a very quiet and unobtrusive person, but, my friends said, very amiable and sufficiently clever.

I know that I used to take an unkind delight in teasing him, and that he was rather clever in repartee, and never spared me in return.