CHAPTER VI.
A LITTLE FAMILY AFFAIR.
While the heads of the Chapman family were engaged in their great work of reform, and Hanz Toodleburg, as the head of the Dutch settlers, was preparing to resist all their efforts, Mattie Chapman and young Tite were engaging in a matter of a very different nature.

A little flame of love had begun to burn in their youthful hearts, and was giving out such manifestations of tenderness.

I have noticed that when once the little under-current of love begins to ebb and flow in young and innocent hearts, it will break over whatever obstacles you put in its way, and rarely stops until it has reached that haven of happiness called matrimony.

The parents of these young people seemed to have been cast in opposite moulds, mentally and physically.

Their modes of thought, their expectations, and their manner of living differed entirely.