You are the last person in the world who ought to think of such a vocation." "Would you advise me, then, to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, in preference ?" "I would advise you to continue your studies, to read, write poetry, ramble about the woods and commune with nature, as you so love to do, and not think of assuming the duties of a woman, while you are yet nothing but a child.

Oh! it is the most melancholy thing in the world to me, to see a person trying to get beyond their years.

You must not do it, Gabriella.

I wish I could make you stop _thinking_ for one year.

I do not like to see a cheek as young as yours pale with overmuch thought.
Do you know you are getting very like your mother ?" "My mother!" I exclaimed, with a glow of pleasure at the fancied resemblance, "why, she is the most beautiful person I have yet seen,--there is, there can be no likeness." "But there is, though.