It is the most comfortable room in the house, and the cosiest--just the place for listening to a long story.

I have told William to get two more armchairs there, so that we can sit round the fire--which is quite the proper thing to do when a story has to be told." The light had faded out of the sky, and the curtains were drawn; but the squire would not have candles lighted, saying that the blaze of the fire was the proper thing to listen by.

Harry related fully the manner in which he had been brought up and trained, by his nurse, for the time when he could present himself at Bombay; and also his adventures in the Deccan, which had paved the way for his obtaining a commission.

He told the rest more briefly, though he was obliged, in answer to the questions of the others, to go somewhat further into his personal adventures.
"It is a wonderful story," the squire said, when he at last finished.

"There are many things that you have cut very short; and which you must, some other time, tell us fully.