I was greatly pleased both with my own powers of observation which had enabled me to discover so important a fact, and also with the circumstance itself.
To a romantic girl of nineteen it appeared high time that a brother of twenty-two should be at least preparing some matrimonial project; and my friend was so good and beautiful that it seemed impossible that I should ever obtain a more lovable sister or my brother a better wife.

Mrs.
Temple could not refuse her sanction to such a scheme; for while their mental qualities seemed eminently compatible, John was in his own right master of Worth Maltravers, and her daughter sole heiress of the Royston estates.
The Commemoration festivities terminated on Wednesday night with a grand ball at the Music-Room in Holywell Street.

This was given by a Lodge of University Freemasons, and John was there with Mr.Gaskell--whose acquaintance we had made with much gratification--both wearing blue silk scarves and small white aprons.

They introduced us to many other of their friends similarly adorned, and these important and mysterious insignia sat not amiss with their youthful figures and boyish faces.
After a long and pleasurable programme, it was decided that we should prolong our visit till the next evening, leaving Oxford at half-past ten o'clock at night and driving to Didcot, there to join the mail for the west.

We rose late the next morning and spent the day rambling among the old colleges and gardens of the most beautiful of English cities.
At seven o'clock we dined together for the last time at our lodgings in High Street, and my brother proposed that before parting we should enjoy the fine evening in the gardens of St.John's College.