"I have not been in this house long enough to ask any of you whose portrait that may be ?" "It is," said Henry, "the portrait of Sir Runnagate Bannerworth, an ancestor of ours, who first, by his vices, gave the great blow to the family prosperity." "Indeed.

How long ago ?" "About ninety years." "Ninety years.

'Tis a long while--ninety years." "You muse upon it." "No, no.

I do wish, and yet I dread--" "What ?" "To say something to you all.

But not here--not here.