"After all, these things are the most important, for they mean duty and courage and--and--all that sort of thing." "Right, little woman," said he, smiling; "that is what Stocks tells me twice a day, but, somehow, reproof comes better from you.

Dear me! it's a sad thing that a middle-aged legislator should be reproved by a very little girl.

Come and see the herons.

The young birds will be everywhere just now." For an hour in the moonlight they went a-sightseeing, and came back very cool and fresh to the open drawing-room window.

As they approached they caught an echo of a loud, bland voice saying, "We must remember our moral responsibilities, my dear Lady Manorwater.