On either side of the impassable gulf, of the impenetrable curtain, each branch had put forth its leaves--a foliage wanting, in the American quarter, it was distinct enough to Granger, of no sign or symptom of climate and environment.

The graft in New York had taken, and Addie was a vivid, an unmistakable flower.

At Flickerbridge, or wherever, on the other hand, strange to say, the parent stem had had a fortune comparatively meagre.

Fortune, it was true, in the vulgarest sense, had attended neither party.

Addie's immediate belongings were as poor as they were numerous, and he gathered that Miss Wenham's pretensions to wealth were not so marked as to expose the claim of kinship to the imputation of motive.