There her mother put in a gentle entreaty that Charley would not distress grandmamma with these loud arguments with her aunt, and I added, seeing that Horace Druce's attention was attracted, that I should like to have added another drawing called 'Courtesy,' and shown that there was SOME hospitality EVEN to strangers, and then I asked the two girls about her.

At the end of FebruaryI was still at Ledstone, and my daily communications from Amelia told me my poor mother-in-law was still a happy idiotanother telegram came to methis time it was addressed to grandmammato grandmamma at the cottage!

" Hephzibah had not lived with grandmamma for years without acquiring a certain tact.

They may banter me as much as they like, but I don't like to see them jest with grandmamma about it, as if they were on equal terms, and she does not understand it either.

Her mother is sitting with us, and has been discoursing to grandmamma on her Jane's wonderful helpfulness and activity in house and parish, and how everything hinged on her last winter when they had whooping-cough everywhere in and out of doors; indeed she doubts whether the girl has ever quite thrown off the effects of all her exertions then.

The Marquis is teaching it to grandmamma out of a book, but I do not care for cardsand it seemed to me such a dull way to spend a ball.

I was sitting reading aloud to grandmamma in the garden when from the trees above there fell upon my neck, which was bare, a fat, hairy caterpillar.