hand of man grew as had grown when they were for bows all this antiquity however though visible from the slopes was outside the immediate boundaries of the estate everything on this snug property was bright and well kept acres of glass houses stretched down the to the at their feet everything looked like money � like the last coin issued from the the stables partly by pines and o and fitted with every late were as dignified as of base on the extensive lawn stood an ornamental tent its door being towards her simple stood at gaze in a alarmed attitude on the edge of the gravel sweep her feet had brought her onward to this point before she had quite realized where she was and now all was contrary to her expectation i thought we were an old family but this is all new she said in her she wished that she had not fallen in so readily with her mother s plans for claiming kin and had endeavoured to gain assistance nearer home the d � or d as they at first called themselves � who owned all this were a somewhat unusual family to find in such an part of the parson had spoken truly when he said that our john was the only really representative of the old d family existing in the county or near it he might have added what he knew very well that the d were no more d of the true tree than he was himself yet it must be admitted that this family formed a very good stock whereon to a name which sadly wanted such when old mr deceased liad by of the d made his as an honest merchant some said money in the north he decided to settle as a county man in the south of england out of hail of his business district and in doing this he felt the necessity of with a that would not too readily identify him with the smart of the past and that would be less commonplace than the original bald words for an hour in the british the pages of works devoted to extinct half extinct and ruined families to the quarter of england in which he proposed to settle he considered that d looked and sounded as well as any of them and d accordingly was to his own name for himself and his yet he was not an ant minded man in this and in his family tree on the new basis was reasonable in his and aristocratic links never a single title above a rank of strict moderation of this work of imagination poor and her parents were naturally in ignorance � much to their discomfiture indeed the very possibility of such was unknown to them who supposed that though to be well favoured might be the gift of fortune a family name came by nature still stood hesitating like a about to make his plunge hardly knowing whether to retreat or to when a figure came forth from the dark door of the tent it was that of a tall young man smoking he had an almost complexion with full lips badly though red and smooth above which was a well black moustache with curled points though his age could not be more than three or four and twenty despite the touches of in his there was a singular force in the gentleman s face and in his bold eye well my beauty what can i do for you said by the maiden he coming and perceiving that she stood quite confounded never mind me i am mr d have you come to see me or my mother this of a d and a differed even more from what had expected than the house and grounds had differed she had dreamed of an aged and dignified face the of all the d with memories representing in the centuries of her family s and england s history but she herself up to the work in hand since she could not get out of it and answered � i came to see your mother sir i am afraid you cannot see her � she is an invalid replied the present representative of the house for this was mr the only son of the lately deceased gentleman cannot i answer your purpose what is the business you wish to see her about it isn t r it i can hardly say what pleasure h no why sir if i tell you it will seem � � s sense of a certain in her errand was now so strong that notwithstanding her awe of him and her general discomfort at being here her rosy curved towards a smile much to the attraction of the alexander it is so very she stammered i fear i can t tell you never mind i like foolish things try again my dear said he kindly asked me to come continued and indeed i was in the mind to do so myself likewise but i did not think it be like this i came sir to tell you that we are of the same family as you ho poor relations yes no d by of the d ay ay i mean d our names are worn away to but we have several proofs that we are d hold we are � and � and we have an old seal marked with a lion on a shield and a castle over him and we have a very old silver spoon round in the bowl like a little and marked with the same castle but it is so worn that mother uses it to stir the soup a castle is certainly my crest said he and my arms a lion and so mother said we ought to make ourselves to you � as lost our horse by a bad accident and are the oldest branch 