ed. When the merchant heard from his wife that Kenelm was coming, he thought it wo

, to this Mr. Chillingly,"-here there was a deep tone of feeling in his voice and look,-"and we must make it as pleasant for him as we can. I will bring down my friend Sir Thomas, and you ask Mr. Emlyn and h

of Moleswich proper, with his spouse, and a portly middle-aged man, to whom, as Sir Thomas Pratt, Kenelm was int

o meet Mrs. Camero

if it might rain, and I have sent the car

er gold chain to which was appended a single locket, and a single blush rose in her hair. She looked wonderfully lovely; and with that loveliness there was a certai

ment or so dinner was announced. Sir Thomas, of course, took in the hostess; Mr. Braefiel

had said grace, Lily glanced behind his back and her aunt's at Kenelm (who did the same thing), making at him what the French call a /moue/. The pledge to her

ter his soup and his fi

as b

honour then of making your acquaintance." Sir Thomas paused before

acquiescingly. He h

a very charming woman

nal

as Lady Glena

in the picture gallery. You came to speak to Lady Gle

ned a young lady, very handsome,

dance at the court ball, now directed his conversational powers towards the viear, who, utterly foiled in the attempt to draw out Lily, met the baronet's advances with the ardour of a talker too long suppressed. Kenelm

: is she related to a gentleman who wa

r. Did you ever kno

ameron with a sort of weary languor, not unwonted, in her voice and manner; and th

llingly, that you said

ge. I hope you are ma

ation is singul

lieve, are growing scarce; at least, now that the fishing in the Thames is improved, poor Mr. Jones complains that his old lodg

s Mordaunt calls the book which first enticed me to take to it 'a cruel one,' I fee

any dumb creature; and just before our garden there are a few trout which she has tame

elville is

xcuse for lying on the grass and reading 'the cruel book,' or perhaps, rather, for sket

ome warm, when Mrs. Braefield, with a woman's true tact, broached a new topic, in which Sir Thomas was immediately interested, relating to the construction of a conservatory for orchids that he meditated adding to his country-hous

as rather rich, both in the best editions of Greek and Latin classics and in early English literature. Kenelm was much pleased with the scholarly vicar, especially when Mr. Emlyn began to speak about Mrs. Cameron and Lily. Of the first he said, "She is one of those women in whom quiet is so predominant that it is long before one can know what undercurrent

"There is certainly something about her whic

y know Words

d she shall

a secr

s dance their

born of murm

ss into

ave found unintelligible; but Lily

e lighted up, but

to herself, untrained, undisciplined, is to grow up into the practi

conversation on commercial matters with S