Well,
never mind; Jim's a good boy, and I am proud of him. I am in some hopes
that this Sydney journey will satisfy his wandering propensities for
the present, and that we may keep him at home. I wish he would fall in
love with somebody, providing she wasn't old enough to be his
grandmother.--Couldn't you send him a letter of introduction to some
of your old schoolfellows, Miss Puss? There was one of them, I
remember, I fell in love with myself one time when I came to see you;
Miss Green, I think it was. She was very nearly being your mamma-in-law,
my dear."
"Why, she is a year younger than me," said Alice, "and, oh goodness,
such a temper! She threw the selections from Beethoven at Signor
Smitherini, and had bread and water-melon for two days for it. Serve
her right!"
"I have had a narrow escape, then," replied the father. "But we shall
see who these two people are immediately, for they are crossing the
river."
When the two travellers rose again into sight on the near bank of the
river, one of them was seen galloping forward, waving his hat.
"I KNEW it was Jim," said Alice, "and on a new grey horse.
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