What have you been about all your life?
And what in the name of wonder, brings you here?
Before you begin I insist on one condition, in the name of all the young ladies in the room.

No useful information about the West Indies!" Francine disappointed her audience.
She was ready enough to make herself an object of interest to her companions; but she was not possessed of the capacity to arrange events in their proper order, necessary to the recital of the simplest narrative.

Emily was obliged to help her, by means of questions.

In one respect, the result justified the trouble taken to obtain it.

A sufficient reason was discovered for the extraordinary appearance of a new pupil, on the day before the school closed for the holidays.
Mr.de Sor's elder brother had left him an estate in St.Domingo, and a fortune in money as well; on the one easy condition that he continued to reside in the island.