Their acreage may be as large, but a good deal of it is mountain land, worth but little.

My fund, therefore, is not as large as yours, but it amounts to a good round sum; and as I hope, either in the army or in some other way, to earn an income for myself, it is ample.

I shall be sorry to divert it from the use for which I intended it, but that cannot now be helped.

I have had the pleasure, year by year, of putting it by for the king's use, and, now that circumstances have changed, it will be equally useful to myself." "Do you know this country well, Jervoise ?" "Personally I know nothing about it, save that the sun tells me that, at present, I am travelling south, Sir Marmaduke.

But, for the last few days I have been so closely studying a map, that I know the name of every town and village on the various routes." "And whither think you of going ?" "To London or Southampton.