She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.