"It seems he never saw your advertisements, never knew as you wanted to hear anything of the child, so he took her away and kept her.

He has been here, off and on, all these years.

I heard tell of him, often and often, when I had been down into Sidmouth, but never dreamt as it was him.

He went about the country with a box on wheels with glasses--a peep show as they calls it." The squire winced.
"He is well spoken of, squire," John said, "and I am bound to say as he doesn't seem the sort of man we took him for, at all, not by no means.
He did not know you wanted to have her, but he thought it his duty to give her the chance, and so he put her with Mrs.Walsham, and never told her, till yesterday, who she was.

Mrs.Walsham was quite grieved at parting with her, for she says she is wonderfully quick at her lessons, and has been like a daughter with her, for the last two years." The child had sat quietly down in a chair, and was looking into the fire while the two men were speaking.