"Going away?
Nonsense, Elise; you are joking.

The very idea of Mrs.
Costello going away from Cacouna!" "She _is_ going at any rate, to my sorrow, she and Lucia both; for six months at least, they say." Mrs.Bellairs and her sister were together again, and Bella, though she was getting used to be called Mrs.Morton, and to see the wedding-ring on her finger, was not at all sobered yet by her matronly state, but might have passed perfectly well for Bella Latour.

She and her husband, who had no leisure for a long wedding-tour, had come back to Cacouna the evening before, and were dining to-day at her brother-in-law's.

The two ladies were sitting in Mrs.Bellairs' room, and Bella was beginning to hear what little news there was in Cacouna since she went away.
"Where are they going ?" she asked when she had had time to believe this surprising item regarding the Costellos.
"South, I believe, for the winter.

Mrs.Costello is not well." "Mrs.Costello or Lucia?
Upon my word, if Lucia is not breaking her heart, she ought to be, for Mr.Percy." "Bella, I wish you would leave off talking such nonsense.