e either expect less pleasure from meeting each other, or are more willing to defer securing it; or perhaps it is that they are willing to allow their friends the first chance of appropriating th

in her light-blue merino frock, with its pretty embroideries, her long golden hair curled in the feathery ringlets Susan was so

look now at one shoulder and now at the other, now at the flow of her skirts behind, and now at the dainty fit of her bronze cloth gaiter-boots. At last, stopping before the long mirro

year older," thought the mother anxiously. "She is so be

s, God takes it into his own hand, and does it in his

rushed away to meet her friends, and take them to the dressing room, where they were to leave their outs

, following the last, a firmer step upon the stair, and the appearance in the drawing-room of a tall, fine

id she, "did y

me the invitation, with my little w

raid it will be a sad bore. Miss Minnie Wall, the oldest of the young lad

ttle wife," persisted Mr.

er;" and, as the little hostess caught sight o

wife has come!-

ng man thus oddly addressed, who

to wish you many happy ret

in surprise, then, glancing at th

se the girls are here; but I lik

est, and, catching the child in his ar

ral, and have a good time. Get the ta