Mr Yellowley was at heart good-natured, and the cobbler was well worth knowing.

Before the former left, the two were often to be seen pacing the garden together, and talking happily.
It is quite unnecessary to recount all the gradations of growth by which room after room arose from the ruins of the Priory.

When Mr Yellowley went away, after nearly six months' sojourn, during the latter part of which, so wonderfully was he restored by the air and the water and the medical care of Mr MacMichael, he enjoyed a little shooting on the hills, he paid him a hundred and fifty pounds for accommodation and medical attendance--no great sum, as money goes now-a-days, but a good return in six months for the outlay of a thousand pounds.

This they laid by to accumulate for the next addition.

And the Priory, having once taken to growing, went on with it.