It is a pretty surprise, when one visits an elderly couple, to see a little figure enter in a white frock with a blond head as smooth as satin, round blue eyes, and a cheek like an apple blossom.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other; and Mr.Tryan looked at Lizzie with that quiet pleasure which is always genuine.
'Here we are, here we are!' said proud grandpapa.

'You didn't think we'd got such a little gell as this, did you, Mr.Tryan?
Why, it seems but th' other day since her mother was just such another.

This is our little Lizzie, this is.

Come an' shake hands wi' Mr.Tryan, Lizzie; come.' Lizzie advanced without hesitation, and put out one hand, while she fingered her coral necklace with the other, and looked up into Mr.
Tryan's face with a reconnoitring gaze.