You ought to have a winter in town." "Indeed, I hope you won't tell him anything of the sort!" cried Lois.

"I wouldn't leave Ashurst for the world, and I'm perfectly happy, I assure you!" "Don't be so silly," said Mrs.Dale calmly, "or think that no one loves your father but yourself.

He was my brother for thirty-four years before he was your father.

I only spoke for your good, and his too, for of course he would be happier if you were." She stopped here to gather her cards up, and deal them out again in little piles, and also to reprove Lois, who had made an impatient gesture at her words.
"These little restless ways you have are very unpleasant," she said; "my girls never did such things.

I don't know where you get your unlady-like habits; not from your father, I'm sure.