I was getting, in my quiet way, rather sedulous and self-reproachful about you.

But you would have your own way, like a young American; and it seems that you were right." "It was quite right," I answered, with a hearty kiss, for I never could be cold-natured; and this was my only one of near kin, so far, at least, as my knowledge went.

"I was quite right in going; and I have done good.
At any rate, I have found out something--something that may not be of any kind of use; but still it makes me hope things." With that, in as few words as ever I could use, I told Lord Castlewood the whole of Jacob's tale, particularly looking at him all the while I spoke, to settle in my own mind whether the idea of such a thing was new to him.

Concerning that, however, I could make out nothing.

My cousin, at his time of life, and after so much travelling, had much too large a share of mind and long skill of experience for me to make any thing out of his face beyond his own intention.