"Yes; I got very much interested in a curious story there; why?"
"What will you say, Ellie, if I ask you to leave the rest of the two piles unopened?"
"Why, I will say that I will do it, of course," said Ellen with a little smothered sigh of regret, however "if you wish it."
"I do wish it, Ellie."
"Very well I'll let them alone, then. I have enough other reading; I don't know how I happened to take that one up; because I saw it there, I suppose."
"Have you finished Nelson yet?"
"Oh, yes! I finished it Saturday night. Oh, I like it very much! I am going all over it again, though. I like Nelson very much; don't you?"
"Yes as well as I can like a man of very fine qualities without principle."
"Was he that?" said Ellen.
"Yes; did you not find it out? I am afraid your eyes were blinded by admiration."