But, dear Helen, I will not grieve you to-day.

There is plenty of time, and all is safe, whatever happens.

I can trust my successor to do rightly.

As for my cousin, I will try him a little longer, lest he prove "'A little more than kin, and less than kind.'" "There seems no likelihood of that.

He always speaks in the warmest manner of you whenever he comes to the Manse; that is what makes me like him, I fancy; and also, because I would always believe the best of people until I found out to the contrary.