Bring the kettle at a quarter to ten--and if you don't get better in the course of the day, come to me, and I'll give you a dose of physic.

That's a well-meaning lad, if you only let him alone," continued Miss Garth, in soliloquy, when Thomas had retired; "but he's not strong enough for concerts twenty miles off.

They wanted _me_ to go with them last night.

Yes: catch me!" Nine o'clock struck; and the minute-hand stole on to twenty minutes past the hour, before any more footsteps were heard on the stairs.

At the end of that time, two ladies appeared, descending to the breakfast-room together--Mrs.Vanstone and her eldest daughter.
If the personal attractions of Mrs.Vanstone, at an earlier period of life, had depended solely on her native English charms of complexion and freshness, she must have long since lost the last relics of her fairer self.