But for sending them home to you in this big town, as some do, I can't; for there's only brother Dick and me: it is an experiment like." "Very well," said Staines: "I will send for them." "Thank you kindly, sir.

I hope you won't be offended, sir; but we only sell for ready money." "All the better: my order at home is, no bills." When he was gone, Phoebe, assuming vast experience, though this was only her third day, told Dick that was one of the right sort: "and oh, Dick," said she, "did you notice his eye ?" "Not particklar, sister." "There now; the boy is blind.

Why, 'twas like a jewel.

Such an eye I never saw in a man's head, nor a woman's neither." Staines told his wife about Phoebe and her brother, and spoke of her with a certain admiration that raised Rosa's curiosity, and even that sort of vague jealousy that fires at bare praise.

"I should like to see this phenomenon," said she.