of them that they could have talked to her for hours and never wearied tongue or ear but the information that she had brought aunt jane with her had caused to their s o o dear to their the secret visitor to feel that she was at home with all at the look out was their first thought never since dear s time nor possibly even then � for he had been more given to than sentiment � had little mrs been made so much of i really almost began to think my dear she said afterwards to that i must have done something either in a dream or in some other state of existence to deserve it though they spoke of persons she had never seen � mrs and the squire � she had heard so much of them from her niece that she had not that feeling of and sense of being out of it that is generally experienced under similar circumstances while at the same time it gratified her to be thus treated as one of the family nervous as she always was in the presence of mere acquaintances it did not even alarm her very much when a wrinkled httle man suddenly appeared in the centre of the group and after wringing s hand as though he would it off proceeded to shake her own as heartily of course you are aunt jane he said who having repented of taking this young lady from her natural home has brought her back to us and to what used to be the dear old place however looks very much as it used to do said laughing it won t do that for long my dear sighed the old gentleman we are going to be as and span as on sea or any other fashionable town that flames out of an advertisement we shall have an with a brass band playing on it from two to four before we are many months older his will stick at nothing the wretch has actually offered battle hill for sale with a hideous suggestion about its being adapted for building purposes but nobody has bought it nor even bid for it has he not s yet but it is only a question of time they will buy it and they will build villa upon it what do they care for the relics of the dead and the of their forefathers what if in digging the foundations of the they should come upon the buried treasure observed don t speak of it exclaimed the old man vehemently if such an event should happen it l i me and i tell you it may ha en a l the op the ages becoming possessed of the spoil of the has something about it every time i go to that hill i seem to feel it will be my last visit there is a board up already with beware i upon it but that i take no notice of i suppose it in my own mind to refer to any wretches who may want to build there think of terrace or and that grand old hill i but any one who chooses to go into john martin s yonder with z in his pocket can begin that infamous work to morrow and nobody can stop him however i have no right to talk about a misfortune which affects no one after all but a poor like myself let us speak of a much pleasanter subject � your own affairs we poor savages at always ventured you know to think you were a marvel and that the idol of our barbarous little tribe should have become an object of worship in the world of london is immensely to the credit of our it would be without doubt if the circumstance you mention had taken place replied laughing unhappily however there have been no at the shrine there has been incense enough at all events put in i never open a newspaper my dear miss dart without reading something about you of laying siege to fame in the usual fashion by approaches and you seem to have carried her by a de main they must be very old newspapers i fear in which you read anything about my poor production said it is quite true indeed that what i have contributed to the has been praised much beyond my expectations and their worth but even three don t make a my dear mat murmured mary i am afraid you must have made a mistake not a bit of it he answered under his breath don t you know a when you see one look at that wicked blush there was certainly a flush in elizabeth dart s cheek which might have been taken in an accused person by a hostile judge as an evidence of guilt you are more in the dark miss dart than we are observed gravely would you mind coming into the light here and letting me have a good long look at face it will be a great t a� to me even if i don t and in it what i expect to see the secret you have already told my fortune sir by she answered lightly so there is no excuse for farther investigation very good then we will tell mrs s fortune for her he spoke so gently and with such a tender respect in his tone that aunt jane was not one whit alarmed by this alarming proposition there are plenty of lines to guide you she answered smiling but i am a aid they lead to nothing or at least to a very poor fortune i am not sure of that said the in solemn tones and her attentively you are to begin with very happy in your domestic relations and people get fond of you at first sight he is right so far cried clapping his hands 