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'Heaven knows we were! said I. 'And every little thing that has reminded me of my brother, said Agnes, with her cordial eyes turned cheerfully upon me, 'has been a welcome companion. Even this, showing me the basket-trifle, full of keys, still hanging at her side, 'seems to jingle a kind of old tune! She smiled again, and went out at the door by which she had come.
She had a little basket-trifle hanging at her side with keys in it; and she looked as staid and discreet a housekeeper as the old house could have. She listened to her father as he told her about me, with a pleasant face; and when he had concluded, proposed to my aunt that we should go upstairs, and see my room. We all went together, she before us.
When I heard how he said it, and saw how he held her hand, I guessed what the one motive of his life was. She had a little basket-trifle hanging at her side, with keys in it; and she looked as staid and as discreet a housekeeper as the old house could have.
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