The initials J.B.stand for no very interesting names--John Buchanan.

A certain interest in the Buchanan, perhaps; it comes out in the flesh, I fancy, though not on the tongue.

As for the address, Normanthorpe House is the rather historic old seat of the family of that name; but they have so many vastly superior and more modern places, and the last fifty years have so ruined the surroundings, that I was able to induce the Duke to take a price for it a year or two ago.

He had hardly slept a night there in his life, and I got it lock-stock-and-barrel for a song.

The Northborough which, you will observe, it is 'near'-- a good four miles, as a matter of fact--is the well-known centre of the Delverton iron-trade.