He wore crape on his hat, I remember, but there was a lady with him to whom he was quite attentive, and who, I think, was called by his name." "Tall, with black eyes, like Lottie's ?" Anna meekly asked, and John replied: "Something after the Lottie order, though more like yourself." "It's strange I never saw a notice of his expected return," was Anna's next remark.

"Perhaps it was in the last _Missionary Herald_.

You have not found it yet, have you, mother ?" The ringing of the supper bell prevented Mrs.Richards from answering.
How gracefully he did the honors, and how proud all were of him, as he repeated little incidents of Parisian life, speaking of the emperor and Eugenie as if they had been everyday sights to him.

In figure and form the fair empress reminded him of Anna, he said, except that Anna was the prettier of the two--a compliment which Anna acknowledged with a blush and a trembling of her long eyelashes.

It was a very pleasant family reunion, for John did his best to be agreeable.
"Oh, John, please be careful.