"I hope not. Is that your branch?" A question which provoked much candid hilarity on the part of the two ladies; on the subsidence of which their entertainer,glancing at his daughter, remarked that she had grown.
"Yes, but I think she has 昀nished. She'll remain—not big," said the French sister.
"I'm not sorry. I prefer women like books—very good and not too long. But I know," the gentleman said, "no particular reason why my child should be short."