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"Yes"

"My aunt, consequently?"

He bowed

"My uncle John was your uncle John? You, Diana, and Mary are his

sister's children, as I am his brother's child?"

"Undeniably"

"You three, then, are my cousins; half our blood on each side flows

from the same source?"

"We are cousins; yes"

I surveyed him It seemed I had found a brother: one I could be

proud of,--one I could love; and two sisters, whose qualities were

such, that, when I knew theenuine affection and adround, and looking through the

low, latticedof Moor House kitchen, I had gazed with so

bitter a mixture of interest and despair, were entle at

his threshold was my blood relation Glorious discovery to a lonely

wretch! This ealth indeed!--wealth to the heart!--a ht, vivid, and

exhilarating;--not like the ponderous gift of gold: rich and