He is the dearest, ugliest little beast that ever wore a halter, and I'll never forget him as long as I live." "And this is the last time we can go galloping out of this gate together, and see the boys coming up the road to meet us," cried Eugenia.

"There they are, all three of them.

Oh, they haven't heard the news yet! I'm going to dash on ahead and tell them." Eugenia's news was that she was going abroad with her father in the fall.

It had all been arranged since he came to Locust.

Finding that business required one of the members of his firm to spend a month in England, he telegraphed back to the office that he would go.
"I don't know which is the most excited over the prospect, myself, or my maid," said Eugenia to the boys.