Such good news for the children! What a prospect of delights! The mother and aunt sympathized in their pleasure; but they took the greatest satisfaction in the thought that their anxiety for Fani was forever relieved, and that God had led the two children whose welfare lay so near their hearts, by such unlooked-for ways, into a happy and hopeful life.
Which of the four children was most pleased with the prospect of the visit to the villa on the Rhine, it would be impossible to say.

They could talk of nothing else, and think of nothing else.

Oscar saw in imagination whole armies of Swiss collected there, and united in one fraternal society by his efforts, with Fani's help.

He began at once to employ every spare moment in searching for a motto for the promised banner.

Emma was in a condition of almost feverish joy.