Is that his doing ?" "Not a doubt of it," said Amboyne.
"Set that against his sacrilege." "Miss Carden and I are both agreed it was not sacrilege.

What is here in this pew?
A brass! Why this is the brass we could none of us decipher.
Hang me, if he has not read it, and restored it!" "So he has.

And where's the wonder?
We live in a glorious age" (Raby smiled) "that has read the written mountains of the East, and the Abyssinian monuments: and he is a man of the age, and your mediaeval brasses are no more to him than cuneiform letters to Rawlinson.

Let me read this resuscitated record.

'Edith Little, daughter of Robert Raby, by Leah Dence his wife:' why here's a hodge-podge! What! have the noble Rabys intermarried with the humble Dences ?" "So it seems.