It was a fancy of mine, for I knew her well before she married your father.

The two families were on terms of great friendship, and for her sake, as well as for my brother's, I gave her the name." "I am glad to meet you, cousin," the girl said, holding out her hand frankly to him.

"It is, of course, a great surprise to us, and I can hardly realize yet that you are really my cousin." "Now, Harry," his uncle said briskly, "I will give orders to have your things taken out of the post chaise, and carried up to your room.

We shall be having lunch directly and, after that, you shall tell us your story at full length." Ten minutes later they sat down to lunch.

When Harry rejoined the others, he fancied he saw traces of tears in the eyes of Mrs.
Lindsay and her daughter; and he thought that perhaps they had been thinking that, if their own boys had lived, they also would be young men now.
After the meal was over, the squire said: "Now, wife, we will all adjourn to the library.