The voices murmured, murmured. They were never still. But so great was his heavenly happiness as he stood there he wished he might live for ever. Transcriber’s Note Images of the source text used in this transcription are available through the Internet Archive. The following changes to the text were noted: p. 2: Two subdued chirrups: “Thank you, Mrs. Samuel Josephs”—Added a period after “Josephs”. p. 3: The buggy tiwnkled away in the sunlight—Changed “tiwnkled” to “twinkled”. p. 14: lifted up his oat tails.—Changed “oat” to “coat”. p. 101: the _garçon_ was hauing up the boxes—Changed “hauing” to "hauling". p. 169: I have sung that music many times.”—Inserted a closing single quotation mark before the closing double quotation mark. p. 154: It doesn’t matter at all, darling.” said the good friend.—Changed period after “darling” to a comma. p. 187: “That,” she said, “is most becoming,”—Comma after “becoming” changed to a period. p. 190: opening the French window to let Klaymongso into the garden, cries.—Changed the period after “cries” to a colon. p. 201: What a _genius_ Mr Peacock was.—Inserted a period after “Mr”. p. 202: There she was—off again Now she—Inserted a period after “again”. p. 210: “That's where the ice pudding is to be,” said Cook—Added a period to the end of the sentence. p. 215: “I’m hanged if I won’t,” cried Father. I won’t—Inserted an opening double quotation mark between “Father.” and “I won’t”. p. 258: “I think I ought to gonow.”—Divided “gonow” into two words.