CHAPTER V.
NEW NEIGHBORS, AND GETTING SETTLED.
The week which followed the wedding-day was an important one.
The improvements on the Morris house were pushed along in a way that astonished everybody.

Every day that passed, and with every dollar's worth of work that was done, the good points of the long-neglected old mansion came out stronger and stronger.
The plans of Mrs.Kinzer had been a good while in getting ready, and she knew exactly what was best to be done at every hole and corner.
Within a few days after Ford's trip of investigation, he and his father came over from the city; and Mr.Foster speedily came to a perfect understanding with Dabney's mother.
"A very business-like, common-sense sort of a woman," the lawyer remarked to his son.

"But what a great, dangling, overgrown piece of a boy that is! Still, he seems intelligent, and you may find him good company." "No doubt of it," said Ford.

"I may be useful to him too.

He looks as if he could learn if he only had a fair chance." "I should say so," responded Mr.Foster.