24 Chapters
'Why, Cousin Raymond, how can you suppose? Why, she's only sixteen!' 'She told me she was seventeen,' said the young man, as if it made a great difference. 'Well, only j…
When he came back, after dinner, she was again in one of the public rooms; she explained that a lot of the things for the ship were spread out in her own parlours: there was no space to sit down. Ray…
'Only just ourselves,' her note had said; and he arrived, in his natural impatience, a few moments before the hour. He remembered his Cousin Maria's habitual punctuality, but when he e…
'You must come to us on the 17th; we expect to have a few people and some good music,' Cousin Maria said to him before he quitted the house; and he wondered whether, the 17th being still te…