Ruth Arnold / or, the Country Cousin

, girls?" asked Mrs. Wobur

out it; any other place will

id Mrs. Woburn, "and I dare say Ernest would like to

ome, Aunt Annie?"

as been longing to have you for a companion

best to bring back the look of delight to her niece's face, she was not successful. It was not until they reached Brill Head, and Ernest began his search for specimens, that Ruth

rustic seat. "Did you ever see any one so wild and vulgar? And that frightful dre

son you did not

d-fashioned; she actually asked me last night if I had any dolls, and if I went to Sunday-school. I

er, Julia, that you speak of my brother's daughter. While Ruth is here she will be treated as your sister. You little know what you

nd quite above reproof or punishment; but it was sufficiently determined to prevent her making any mor

est, and planning an afternoon on the shore to collect sea-weeds. But Julia walked slowly beside her moth

of business, but with his son she felt wonderfully shy. It seemed hardly possible that the handsome young man with the dark moustache and manly bearing could be her cousin. She had expec

the shining hours, my lad?"

re collecting shells for Rut

me! the country cousin is working wo

and she decided mentally that she should never like Cousin Gerald. The arrival of her brother seemed to have restored Julia's good-humour, and when in the e

heard, played by a military band and accompanied by the gentle splash of the waves against the pier; to feel the cool fresh sea-breeze blowing around her, and to see

e gratified her whim; but Ruth, although she had changed the dress which had proved so obnoxious that morning, did not con

when the two girls had retired to their bedr

n to which she could give her assent so easily. "But I did

said Julia; "but I am

eventeen, and he is quite a bo

makes a great difference. Now I am sure that Gerald knows quite as much as

asked Ruth

Gerald is rather late home in the evening, and he has to sit up for him. A

even when their sons were

bad of papa to expect poor Gerald to slave away in that office all

that way of your parents," cried Ruth reproachfully. "Don'

some creature you are!" mutt