"It is not right, Cousin Tom, that you should keep me here for nothing.

Let me pay something each month--" (And I named a suitable sum.) That determined Cousin Tom altogether.

My speaking of Whitehall had greatly reassured him; and now this offer of mine made up his mind; for he was something of a skinflint in some respects.

(For all that I did for him when I was here, in the fields and at the farm, more than repaid him for the expense of my living there.) He protested a little, and said that between kinsfolk no such question should enter in; but he protested with a very poor grace; and so the matter was settled, and we both satisfied.
* * * * * So, once more, the time began to pass very agreeably for me.

Here was I, safe from all the embroilments of town, in the same house with my Cousin Dorothy, and with plenty of leisure for my languages again.