Only I daresay Mr.Corbet might be a little bit right, though I'm sure he was a great deal wrong." "But you'll not go on a-fretting--you won't now, there's a good young lady--for master won't like it, and it'll make him uneasy, and he's enough of trouble without your red eyes, bless them." "Trouble--papa, trouble! Oh, Dixon! what do you mean ?" exclaimed Ellinor, her face taking all a woman's intensity of expression in a minute.
"Nay, I know nought," said Dixon, evasively.

"Only that Dunster fellow is not to my mind, and I think he potters the master sadly with his fid- fad ways." "I hate Mr.Dunster!" said Ellinor, vehemently.

"I won't speak a word to him the next time he comes to dine with papa." "Missy will do what papa likes best," said Dixon, admonishingly; and with this the pair of "friends" parted,.