I think you ought to hear it read." Ovid showed no inclination to adopt this proposal.

He asked an idle question.

"I heard of their finding the Will--are there any romantic circumstances ?" Mrs.Gallilee surveyed her son with an expression of good-humoured contempt.

"What a boy you are, in some things! Have you been reading a novel lately?
My dear, when the people in Italy made up their minds, at last, to have the furniture in your uncle's room taken to pieces, they found the Will.

It had slipped behind a drawer, in a rotten old cabinet, full of useless papers.