'Tis a most gallant lad; and the First Lord has sent him a commission, as a reward for his good conduct, in cutting out the Frenchman.

I look upon him as a credit to the name; and I make no question, he is, some way or other, of our family." "Does he claim to be so ?" asked the judge, a little quickly, for he distrusted men in general, and thought, from all he had heard, that some attempt might have been made to practise on his brother's simplicity.

"I thought you told me that he came from the American colonies ?" "So he does; he's a native of Virginia, as was his father before him." "A convict, perhaps; or a servant, quite likely, who has found the name of his former master, more to his liking than his own.

Such things are common, they tell me, beyond seas." "Yes, if he were anything but an American, I might wish he were my heir," returned Sir Wycherly, in a melancholy tone; "but it would be worse than to let the lands escheat, as you call it, to place an American in possession of Wychecombe.

The manors have always had English owners, down to the present moment, thank God!" "Should they have any other, it will be your own fault, Wycherly.