"You're awfully pretty, my darling, awfully.

He is the best, the truest, the cleverest, the dearest darling dear that ever stepped, and a second father to me; and, cousin, this village is his birth-place, and he didn't say much, but it was he who told us of this farm, and he would be so pleased if I could write and say, 'We are to have the farmCousin

Quick and prompt was the response, and noisily and hurriedly the two darlings came rushing down the stairs, followed by Mary.

One darling I know they have lost within a twelvemonth, but scarce known to me by sight, and that was a second child lost.

my cares beguiling, Mother sits beside thee smiling, Sleep, my darling, tenderly!

Then we were married, not publicly and with great pomp, but as my darling wishedprivately and quietly.