The doctor was walking so rapidly that Esther was a little out of breath.

Was it because Esther was in a way his mother, as well as his sweetheart, that she seemed to do all the kissing?

Esther ain't her child.

[20] Esther is the most notable apparent exception, but this it only apparent.

" Emily blushed, and said, smilingly, Esther was "a very impertinent person;" and in this opinion Charlie fully concurred.

Esther was the picture of despair, and she wept bitterly for the misfortune which had befallen her pet brother; and when the operation was over, refused to answer poor Caddy's questions respecting Charlie's injuries, and scolded her with a warmth and volubility that was quite surprising to them all.

Oh, dear, I'll tell the girls I didn't mean a word I said,that I'm the biggest liar in town; that Esther is an heiress; thatthatoh, I'll do or say anything, if you'll only stop crying, Laura.

Esther must have been a middle-aged woman when, as the saddened letters revealed, her health failed and she was ordered by the physicians to go to Europe.

Esther is my cousin and we were brought up together.

When Mike has a theatre of his own and can send boxes to his friends, when Henry maybe is an editor of power, when Esther and Angel are the enthroned wives of famous men, and the new heaven and the new earth are quite finished,will they never sigh sometimes to have the making of them all over again?

Esther is my step-daughter.

For five days he did not try to see Esther and upon the sixth he realised finally that seeing Esther was the only thing that mattered.

Esther is a most lovable, gentle creature, called by those who know and love her, "Dame Durden" or "Dame Trot."

Esther was her foster-sister; and it happened that just at this period, it being vacation-time, we were paying a visit to a family in the neighborhood.

Esther was a New England girl, if ever there was one,a little New England girl, who had come up with her mother to Boston from the Cape perhaps to learn to be a teacher.

Esther and the doctor were not lovers but lingered in that deliciously unconscious state of "going-to-be-in-love-presently" which is nothing less than heavenly.