Captain Helding--" "Captain Helding! What in the name of wonder has the captain to do with it ?" "He told you something about the _Atalanta_.

He said the _Atalanta_ was expected back from Africa immediately." "Well, and what of that?
Is there anybody in whom you are interested coming home in the ship ?" "Somebody whom I am afraid of is coming home in the ship." Mrs.Crayford's magnificent black eyes opened wide in amazement.
"My dear Clara! do you really mean what you say ?" "Wait a little, Lucy, and you shall judge for yourself.

We must go back--if I am to make you understand me--to the year before we knew each other--to the last year of my father's life.

Did I ever tell you that my father moved southward, for the sake of his health, to a house in Kent that was lent to him by a friend ?" "No, my dear; I don't remember ever hearing of the house in Kent.

Tell me about it." "There is nothing to tell, except this: the new house was near a fine country-seat standing in its own park.