"If I make any blunders, tell me." "Oh, papa!" exclaimed Eeny, "I thought some one else was coming.

A sick gentleman--Mr.what ?--oh, Richards ?" The face of Captain Danton and his eldest daughter darkened suddenly at the question.

Grace saw it in surprise.
"He will be here presently," he said, but he said it with an air of restraint; and Kate, leaning forward with that radiant smile of hers, began telling Eeny some story of their life at sea that made her forget Mr.Richards.
They adjourned to the drawing-room after dinner.

A long, low, sumptuous apartment, very stately and very grand, and decorated with exquisite taste.
"What a beautiful room!" Kate said.

"We had nothing half so quaint and old as this at home, papa ?" There was a grand piano near one of the tall windows, with a music-rack beside it, and the young lady went over and opened it, and ran her fingers with a masterly touch over the keys.
"That's right, Kate," said her father; "give us some music.