"He seemed so absent-like, as if there were something on his mind--some heart trouble, you know; but that only made him more interesting; and such an adventure as I had, too.

Send her out of the room, please," and nodding toward Adah, Ellen spoke beneath her breath.
'Lina comprehended her meaning, and turning to Adah said rather haughtily: "It's cool on the west end of the piazza.

You may go and sit there a while." With a heightened color at being thus addressed before a stranger, Adah withdrew, and Ellen continued: "It's so strange.

I found in the hall, near my door, a tiny ambrotype of a young girl, who must have been very beautiful--such splendid hair, soft brown eyes, and cheeks like carnation pinks.

I wondered much whose it was, for I knew the owner must be sorry to lose it.