| After dinner, they sat down to whist, of which Miss Vavasor was very fond. |
| Now Vavasor was in reality not a little disgusted at what he beheld. |
| It takes a lifetime, Mr. Vavasor, to learn where to pay our taxes. |
| But indeed Vavasor could swim, well enough, only he did not see the necessity for it. |
| But by this time Vavasor had resolved to make an attempt to gain his aunt, and so Hester. |
| When Vavasor was gone she turned with greater diligence to her musical studies. |
