as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.