I have no other object in life, at present.

It will be quite soon enough for me to think of taking up the commission I have been promised, when you tell me that your feeling that he is alive has been shaken." Mrs.Holland was comforted by Dick's assurance and confident tone, and, putting the thought aside for a time, gave herself up to the pleasure of his return.

They had found everything at Tripataly as they had left it, for the Mysore horsemen had not penetrated so far north, before Tippoo turned his course east to Pondicherry.

The people had, months before, returned to their homes and avocations.
One evening the Rajah said, as they were all sitting together: "I hear from my wife, Dick, that your mother has told her you still intend to carry out your original project." "Yes, Uncle.

I have quite made up my mind as to that.