At length, raising his head, and turning to me with great animation, he asked if I knew any of my father's relations, besides Robert Moncton and his son?
"I was not aware that I had any other relatives." "They are by no means a prolific race, Geoffrey.

And has your insatiable curiosity never led you to make the inquiry ?" "I dared not ask my uncle.

My aunt told me that, but for them, I should be alone in the world.

It was a subject never discussed before me," I continued, after a long pause, in which George seemed busy with his own thoughts.

"I understood that my uncle had only one brother." "True," said George, "but he has a cousin; a man of great wealth and consequence.