Who would have thought my life would have lasted so long?
But it can not last forever; and before I am 'away' as your dear old father would say, I should like to leave you quite settled and happy about that boy." "Who says I am not happy ?" answered Mrs.Bruce, rather sharply.
"Nobody; but I see it myself sometimes--when you get that restless, anxious look--there it is now! Helen, I must have it away.

I think it would trouble me in my grave if I left you unhappy," added the earl, regarding her with that expression of yearning tenderness which she had been so used to all her days that she rarely noticed it until the days came when she saw it no more.
"I am not unhappy," she said, earnestly.

"Why should I be?
My dear father keeps well still--he enjoys a green old age.

And is not my son growing up every thing that a mother's heart could desire ?" "I do believe it.

Cardross is a good boy--a very good boy.