Rather young, Bobby." "Her father has been very good to me and to my mother; and so has Annie, for that matter.

Squire Lee would be a great deal more pleased if I should make Annie a present than if I made him one.

I feel grateful to him, and I want to let it out somehow." "That's right, Bobby; always remember your friends.

Timmins, wrap up this book." Bobby protested with all his might; but the bookseller insisted that he should give Annie this beautiful edition, and he was obliged to yield the point.
That evening he was at the little black house again, and his mother examined his ledger with a great deal of pride and satisfaction.

That evening, too, another ten dollars was indorsed on the note, and Annie received that elegant copy of Moore's Poems..