He was life and health to me, with his brave cheerfulness--his way of turning all minor troubles into pleasantries, till they seemed to break and vanish away, sparkling, like the foam on the top of the wave.

Yet, all the while one knew well that he could meet any great evil as gallantly as a good ship meets a heavy sea--breasting it, plunging through it, or riding over it, as only a good ship can.
When I recovered--just a month after the bread-riot, and that month was a great triumph to John's kind care--I felt that if I always had him beside me I should never be ill any more; I said as much, in a laughing sort of way.
"Very well; I shall keep you to that bargain.

Now, sit down; listen to the newspaper, and improve your mind as to what the world is doing.

It ought to be doing something, with the new century it began this year.
Did it not seem very odd at first to have to write '1800' ?" "John, what a capital hand you write now!" "Do I! That's somebody's credit.

Do you remember my first lesson on the top of the Mythe ?" "I wonder what has become of those two gentlemen ?" "Oh! did you never hear?
Young Mr.Brithwood is the 'squire now.