The county families had been neighborly, calling on the invalid earl, and occasionally carrying off Lady Isabel, but his chief and constant visitor had been Mr.Carlyle.The earl had grown to like him in no common degree, and was disappointed if Mr.Carlyle spent an evening away from him, so that he became, as it were, quite domesticated with the earl and Isabel.

"I am not quite equal to general society," he observed to his daughter, "and it is considerate and kind of Carlyle to come here and cheer my loneliness." "Extremely kind," said Isabel.

"I like him very much, papa." "I don't know anybody that I like half as well," was the rejoinder of the earl.
Mr.Carlyle went up as usual the same evening, and, in the course of it, the earl asked Isabel to sing.
"I will if you wish, papa," was the reply, "but the piano is so much out of tune that it is not pleasant to sing to it.

Is there any one in West Lynne who could come here and tune my piano, Mr.Carlyle ?" she added, turning to him.
"Certainly there is.

Kane would do it.