Besides, I have a special object in wishing to see you as soon as possible.

May I follow my letter to Mablethorpe House?
And may I present a lady to you--a perfect stranger--in whom I am interested?
Pray say Yes, by the bearer, and oblige your affectionate nephew, "JULIAN GRAY." Lady Janet referred again suspiciously to the sentence in the letter which alluded to the "lady." Julian Gray was her only surviving nephew, the son of a favorite sister whom she had lost.

He would have held no very exalted position in the estimation of his aunt--who regarded his views in politics and religion with the strongest aversion--but for his marked resemblance to his mother.

This pleaded for him with the old lady, aided as it was by the pride that she secretly felt in the early celebrity which the young clergyman had achieved as a writer and a preacher.

Thanks to these mitigating circumstances, and to Julian's inexhaustible good-humor, the aunt and the nephew generally met on friendly terms.