"There is no place like home--especially home with mother in it." "Or with father in it," added Grace as, at that moment, Captain Raymond joined the circle.
"Such a father as ours," said Lucilla, looking up at him with a smile of proud, fond affection.

He returned it, accepted an offered seat, and asked Walter if he had been entertaining the company with tales of college doings and experiences.
"Yes, sir," returned the lad.

"I suppose it is the usual thing for a Freshman to do on coming home at the end of his year." "Quite; his head being pretty full of them," was the playful rejoinder.
"Well, little--no, young brother--I hope the old tutor has not been entirely forgotten, in admiration and affection for the new ?" "No, sir; no, indeed! and never will be," returned Walter, speaking with an energy and earnestness that brought a smile to the captain's lips and eyes.

"I shall show myself strangely ungrateful if I ever forgot the patience and kindness with which my oldest brother instructed me; and all for no reward at all." "Ah! there you are mistaken," said Captain Raymond pleasantly.

"It was reward enough to know that I was helping to fit you for future usefulness.