But that is past." "Why?
Surely, I hope, my shortcomings with Miss Yerba Buena will not be remembered by Miss Arguello ?" sail Paul, earnestly.
"Ah! SHE may be a very different person." "I hope not," said the young man, warmly.

"But HOW different ?" "Well, she may not put herself in the way of receiving such point-blank compliments as that," said the young girl, demurely.
"Not from her guardian ?" "She will have no guardian then." She said this gravely, but almost at the same moment turned and sat down again, throwing her linked hands over her knee, and looked at him mischievously.

"You see what you have lost, sir." "I see," said Paul, but with all the gravity that she had dropped.
"No; but you don't see all.

I had no brother--no friend.

You might have been both.