You speak as if you thought yourself quite ugly.
I wonder if you do.

Ugly and old.

Strange self-estimation for a pretty girl of fifteen!" "I suppose you learn to flatter in college," said I, "but I do not care about being flattered, I assure you." "You are very much mistaken if you think I am trying to flatter you.

I may do so a year or two hence if I chance to meet you in company, but here, in this rural solitude, with the very element of truth in my hand, I could not deceive, if I were the most accomplished courtier in the world." We had reached the top of the green acclivity which we bad been ascending, I fear with somewhat tardy steps.

We could see the road through an opening in the trees,--a road little travelled, but leading to the central street of the town.