on, or he thought he had; some of them in very high places, and with all the adventitious charms which wealth and place and breeding can add to those of nature's giving. Yet here was something new.

ndings, he was suddenly hailed by a joyful

you come from? and

o see you, but have been bothered with cust

ng over? curiosities

h. How do you

by a notion of my mother's; she will

hen March is stalking abroad like this. Wh

gets ready to be off; and what's the use? April will be

s off the trees here in

anywhere. But come alo

wfully glad

Philip's return, and much curiosity expressed as to where he had been and what he had been doing

d Tom. "You go,

mother, "I could not p

r the house, and Dillwyn wi

u silly boy?" said his sister. "

matter?" Phil

py game at hawk's distance; only they make a mistake sometimes, which the

ime," said his sister. "Phi

aid Dillwyn humorously.

Miss Julia. "He is caught wit

? Fie, Tom! ar

, nor tries it, in the way you mean. I am not caught, e

very plain Tom isn't c

time. Of course she makes great eyes; and the eyes are pretty; a

ittle country girl woul

us, to have one's confidence

caught, as you call it, neither by her nor with her; but if

s nothing whatever the matter with her; and I have n

talk, I can tell you, better than anybody of all those you had

s big eyes. Of course nothing can be more delightful. But, Tom,

l enough dresse

rranged tha

rls think so much of dressing. It isn't t

o go out with me if I wasn't assez bien mise? Or what would ta

question wear a hoo

she d

r want o

on, and one can't help oneself. And, as I said, you may no

f this lady, as I understand, are,-

y in the country-very respectable people, I have no doubt, but,-well, she is nobody

circumstances himself. I was thinking, he might be able to

n. But he does not laugh when it comes to be his own case, and matters have g

ome to be 'my own case,' as I never even saw the lady. Who is she?

d medley of "Mrs. Wishart"-"Miss Lothrop"-"stayin

's countena

choed. "Mrs. Wishart

ny in Miss Lothrop's pocket, nor give h

dge of the world?" Mr. Dill

laughing. She was comfortably conscious of being thoroughly "manufactured" herself. No crude ignorances or deficiencies there.-"The

shut th

ll shut them out? All that makes the differenc

understand, then, is

burst out. "Ridiculous!" But Dillw

just awkward," sa

ustomed to a certain set of things. She does not strike you unpleasantly in society, seated at a

imself out

are going to Florida

ctual danger. I know he goes very often to Mrs. Wishart's; and you know Tom is impressible; and b

art's too," said Philip. "Do yo

ke such furies of fancies for this girl or for that. To me they do not seem so different.

in nature, for there the variety is simply endless; but in our ways of living. Here the effort seems to be to fall in with one gene

nything is once recognized as the right thing

ognized it as t

ha

unifor

ould yo

assic head can draw it severely about her in close bands and coils, and so only the better show its nobility of contour? Why may not a beautiful head of hair be dressed flowingly, because the fashion

ut if one lives in the world, it won't do to d

d happen,

Unless you are a person of import

me unworthy bond

if there is. We have got to take i

new Fancy rather,-as I understand

age in New England some

Philip, with a some

nions; but she has lived among farmers and sailors all her life, and that is all she knows. And it is p

hilip, rising. "You had better ge

do that?" said Mis

t," said Dillwyn