by the contemplation of Ocean were to be recorded under lock and key.

Agnes said she was afraid I must have given her an unpromising character; but Dora corrected that directly.

‘Oh no!’ she said, shaking her curls at me; ‘it was all praise.

He thinks so much of your opinion, that I was quite afraid of it.’

‘My good opinion cannot strengthen his attachment to some people whom he knows,’ said Agnes, with a smile; ‘it is not worth their having.’

‘But please let me have it,’ said Dora, in her coaxing way, ‘if you can!’

We made merry about Dora’s wanting to be liked, and Dora said I was a goose, and she didn’t