One lives to learn.

Put me in mind, by the by, to write to Coke about his sheep." "This way, dear Charles; we can go round by the village,--and see poor Ponto and Dash." The tears rushed to Mr.St.John's eyes.

"If poor Sir Miles could have known you!" he said, with a sigh; and though the gardeners were at work on the lawn, he bowed his head and kissed the blushing cheek of his wife as heartily as if he had been really a farmer.
From the terrace at Laughton, turn to the humbler abode of our old friend the vicar,--the same day, the same hour.

Here also the scene is without doors,--we are in the garden of the vicarage; the children are playing at hide-and-seek amongst the espaliers which screen the winding gravel-walks from the esculents more dear to Ceres than to Flora.

The vicar is seated in his little parlour, from which a glazed door admits into the garden.