"I am sure my dear Earl was very kind to him in giving him that great estate in Virginia." "Since his brother's death, the lad who has been here to-day is heir to that.

Mr.Draper told me so! Peste! I don't know why my father gave up such a property." "Who has been here to-day ?" asked the Baroness, highly excited.
"Harry Esmond Warrington, of Virginia," my lord answered: "a lad whom Will nearly pitched into the river, and whom I pressed my lady the Countess to invite to stay here." "You mean that one of the Virginian boys has been to Castlewood, and has not been asked to stay here ?" "There is but one of them, my dear creature," interposes the Earl.

"The other, you know, has just been----" "For shame, for shame!" "Oh! it ain't pleasant, I confess, to be se----" "Do you mean that a grandson of Henry Esmond, the master of this house, has been here, and none of you have offered him hospitality ?" "Since we didn't know it, and he is staying at the Castles ?" interposes Will.
"That he is staying at the Inn, and you are sitting there!" cries the old lady.

"This is too bad--call somebody to me.

Get me my hood--I'll go to the boy myself.