She went on however as if to meet this.

"He's far and away, you know, the best of them." "The best of whom, ma'am ?" "Why of all the long procession--the boys, the girls, or the old men and old women as they sometimes really are; the hope, as one may say, of our country.

They've all passed, year after year; but there has been no one in particular I've ever wanted to stop.

I feel--don't YOU ?--that I want to stop little Bilham; he's so exactly right as he is." She continued to talk to Waymarsh.

"He's too delightful.