He is very close." "Open him then," said the doctor.

"Come, come, there are a pair of you; and evidently disposed to act in concert; if you can not turn a man inside out, I disown you; you are a discredit to your sex." He then shook hands with all three of them, and rolled away.
"Jael," said Miss Carden, "oblige me by ringing the bell." A servant entered.
"Not at home to any human creature," said the young lady.
The servant retired.
"And, if they see me at the window, all the worse--for THEM.

Now, Mr.
Little ?" Henry complied, and told the whole story, with the exception of the threat to his sweetheart; and passed two delightful hours.

Who is so devoid of egotism as not to like to tell his own adventures to sympathizing beauty?
He told it in detail, and even read them portions of the threatening letters; and, as he told it, their lovely eyes seemed on fire; and they were red, and pale, by turns.

He told it, like a man, with dignity, and sobriety, and never used an epithet.