I wish they hadn't.

I don't trust foreigners and foreign ways, and they don't have the same kind of money as ours; but Nicholas says I needn't worry; he is sure that our John Thomas, if change is to make, will make it to suit himself." "How soon will he be home ?" "I might say to-day or any other early day.

He's been idling for a month now, and his father says 'the very looms are calling out for him.' I'll bring him to see you just as soon as he comes home, looms or no looms, and he'll be fain to come.

No one appreciates a pretty girl more than John Thomas does." So the days passed sweetly and swiftly onward, and there was no trouble in them.

Such business as was to be done went on behind the closed doors of the Squire's office, and with no one present but himself, Judge Rawdon, and the attorneys attached to the Rawdon and Mostyn estates.