Your coffee would not disgrace a pasha's table; and your rolls are 'The whitest, the lightest, that ever were seen.'" She disappeared from the window, and entered the room just as Mr.
Hamilton came in, followed by Florence.
"My dear uncle, have you forgotten the old adage of 'early to bed, and early to rise ?'" "I am not sure that I ever learned it, Mary;" he dryly replied, seating himself at the table.
"One would suppose you had taken a draught from the 'Elixir of Life;'" said Florence, glancing affectionately at her beaming face.
"I have discovered the fountain of perpetual youth, so vainly sought in South America!" "Indeed! Is it located in this vicinity ?" "Yes; and if you will rise to-morrow with Aurora, when 'she sprinkles with rosy light the dewy lawn,' I will promise to conduct you to it." "Thank you; but, Mary, what induced you to ramble so early ?" "I have been nearly two miles for some roots Mrs.Carlton expressed a wish for.

See, Florry, how I have dyed my hands pulling them up!" "Were you alone, Mary ?" asked Mr.Hamilton.
"I was, most of the time.

As I came back, Dr.Bryant overtook me.
He spent the night at San Jose mission, with a sick Mexican, and was returning.

But where is Aunt Lizzy ?" continued Mary, with an inquiring glance round the room.
"She went to mass this morning," replied her cousin.
"Oh, yes! It is St .-- --'s day.

I heard the bells at daybreak." "It is a savage, heathenish custom they have adopted here, of tearing up and down the streets from morning till night.