Rhoda Broughton

Doctor Cupid Rhoda Broughton

'There! I do not think that the joys and sorrows of living in a little house under the shadow of a big one were ever more lucidly set forth, ' says an elder sister, holding up the slate on which she has just been totting up this ingenious debit and credit account to a pink junior, kneeling, head on hand, beside her; a junior who, not so long ago, did sums on that very slate, and the straggle of briony round whose sailor-hat tells that she has only just left the sunburnt harvest-fields and the overgrown August hedgerows behind her