I trust you will stay, and your kinsman also.
Perchance you have never before seen a rustic wedding." "Not for many years now," answered Paul, with a smile and a sigh; "and I would fain be a witness of yours, fair mistress.

But I must ask my young companion there.

We have linked our lives together for the nonce." But young Edward was perfectly willing to be the farmer's guest for awhile.

Nothing could better have fitted in with his own wishes than to have stayed in such unquestioned fashion beneath the roof of one of his humble subjects.

At the supper table that night he won all hearts by the grace of his manners, the sweetness of his smiles, his ready courtesy to all, and the brilliant sallies that escaped his lips which set the whole table sometimes in a roar.