Wasn't I astonished! I asked what brought him there, and he told me he found St.Croix so slow he couldn't stand it any longer.

Complimentary to you, young ladies." Kate gave Rose a mischievous look, and Rose bit her lip and tossed back her auburn curls.
"I dare say St.Croix and its inhabitants can survive the loss," she said.

"Papa, the next time you go to Montreal I want you to take me.
It's a long time since I have been there." "I thought you were going back to Ottawa," said Grace.

"You seem to have forgotten all about it." Rose gave her an alarmed look; and finding a gap in the tete-a-tete between her sister and Sir Ronald, struck smilingly in.

He was small and he was homely, but he was a baronet and worth eight thousand a year, and Rose brought all the battery of her charms to bear.