CHAPTER V.
"You have done more towards beautifying the cottage than I could have hoped to do," said Mr.Juxon, leaning back in his chair and resting one hand on Stamboul's great head.
"It was very pretty of itself," answered Mrs.Goddard, "and fortunately it is not very big, or my things would look lost in it." "I should not say that--you have so many beautiful things.

They seem to suit the place so well.

I am sure you will never think of taking them away." "Not if I can help it--I am too glad to be quiet." "You have travelled a great deal, Mrs.Goddard ?" asked the squire.
"No--not exactly that--only a little, after all.

I have not been to Constantinople for instance," she added looking at the hound Mr.Juxon had brought from the East.

"You are indeed a traveller." "I have travelled all my life," said the squire, indifferently, as though the subject of his wanderings did not interest him.