8/37 I do not remember that I ever heard an unkind word from him, There was not a harsh tone in his voice. And he was generous as the day." Lucy, we have said, was not generally demonstrative, but now, on this subject, and with this absolute stranger, she became almost eloquent. Mark is the best of brothers, and, as for Fanny, she is too kind and too good to me. But I had always been specially my father's friend. For the last year or two we had lived so much together!" "He was an old man when he died, was he not ?" "Just seventy, my lord." "Ah, then he was old. |