"Ah, Harold!" turning to him as, having secured his horse, he came up the veranda steps and joined their little group, "I am glad to see you; especially as, like a dear, good boy, you have brought your mother along." "Yes," he said, grasping cordially the hand she held out, "I find I am sure of a welcome anywhere when I am fortunate enough to induce mother to accompany me.

Sick or well, everybody is glad to see her." "You also, I presume; especially if they are sick." "And can't get Cousin Arthur," he added.

"A young doctor is better than none; though an old and tried physician is deemed the best--by sensible people." "Ah, ha; ah, ha; um, hm! so it would seem, laddie, yet sometimes the young fellows hae a new trick the auld hardly ken aboot," remarked Cousin Ronald with a good-humoured smile.

"And for my ain sel' I should care little--were I ill--whether it were Doctor Arthur or Doctor Harold that prescribed the remedies to be used." "Or Doctor Herbert; Herbert might do just as well as either of the two, I presume," added Annis.
"We have just come from a call at Roselands to see Marian and your little namesake, Cousin Ronald," said Mrs.Travilla.

"He is a dear little fellow, and I hope will grow up in a way to do honour to the name." "I hope he may, and to be a great comfort and blessing to the parents who have done me the honour to call their firstborn for me," returned the old gentleman, a gleam of pleasure lighting up his face.