However I hope that, in two or three years' time, I shall be able to write and tell her that I have comfortably settled, and have a good home ready for her to come to; and that then she will join me." "Never," Mrs.Whitney said, excitedly.

"I was born at Lewes, and I have lived near it all my days, and I will die here.

I am not going to tramp all over the world, and settle down among black people, in outlandish parts.

I could not do it, Mr.Shrewsbury.

It's cruel of him to ask me." The schoolmaster was silent for a minute.