'Have you done all that, this morning ?' 'It is very little, sir,' returned the child, with downcast eyes, 'to what we mean to do.' 'Good work, good work,' said the bachelor.

'But do you only labour at the graves of children, and young people ?' 'We shall come to the others in good time, sir,' replied Nell, turning her head aside, and speaking softly.
It was a slight incident, and might have been design or accident, or the child's unconscious sympathy with youth.

But it seemed to strike upon her grandfather, though he had not noticed it before.

He looked in @ hurried manner at the graves, then anxiously at the child, then pressed her to his side, and bade her stop to rest.

Something he had long forgotten, appeared to struggle faintly in his mind.