Excerpt: Oh, Jo, such news! I don't know whether I'm pleased or not; but I do hope it will be for the best! And so saying, the speaker, Mrs. Dennis, laid down the letter she had been reading and glanced at her husband, with a smile upon her lips and tears in her eyes. It was half-past eight on a fine September morning, and the Dennis family?comprised of Dr. Dennis, his wife, and three children, Ed...