"I thought that she would look much worse." "You should have seen her yesterday, mamma, when we passed her, with the jagged stumps of the topmast and bowsprit and all her ropes in disorder, the sails hanging down in the water and the wreckage alongside.

I could have cried when I saw her.

At any rate, she looks very neat and trim now.
"Where is the Phantom, Major Mallett ?" "She got under way at eleven o'clock, and has gone up to Southampton," he replied, quietly, but with a half-interrogatory glance towards her.
She gave a little nod, and took a chair a short distance from that in which Lady Greendale had seated herself.
"Has he gone for good ?" Frank asked, as he sat down beside her.
"Of course he has," she said.

"You don't suppose, after what I told you last night, that I was going to accept him." "I hoped not," he said, gravely.

"You cannot tell what a relief it has been to me.