Perhaps you did know my brothers, elder and younger." "There was a boy with your mother at Malvern.

I was near her there for three months in--what WAS the year ?" "Yes, I know," Vanderbank replied while his guest tried to fix the date.
"It was my brother Miles.

He was awfully clever, but had no health, poor chap, and we lost him at seventeen.

She used to take houses at such places with him--it was supposed to be for his benefit." Mr.Longdon listened with a visible recovery.

"He used to talk to me--I remember he asked me questions I couldn't answer and made me dreadfully ashamed.