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you have only to be in real trouble to knoho your true friends are

I'm sure the sympathy--and the flowers--you wouldn't have known he was

lying in his little coffin--and Swinny--that wo as if her heart would break We ed her, Molly, we did

indeed Really, her devotion at the last--"

At this point Molly turned her back on herup the village street now, and a hard

tearless face was presented to a highly eroup of spectators

All Drayton Parva was alive to the fact that Mrs Nevill Tyson was an

unnaturalthey could

to show their respect There was Pinker's father, and Ashby, at the

gate--with their hats off And for Baby--poor little darling, if he only

knew! Well, it shohat they think of you and Nevill You've gotinto the carriage Pinker should

have been e It's

everlasting At any rate it'll last you as long as you want it Ah-h!

My poor child"--she laid her hand on Mrs Nevill Tyson's averted

shoulder--"you'll not fret, will you, now? No--you're too brave, I

know The more I think of it the more I feel that it's all for the best

Think--if he'd lived to be older you'd have cared more, and it would

have been harder then--when he was running about and playing You can't

have the sa for a little baby And he was so delicate, too, you

really couldn't have wished it He had your father's constitution And if

you'd tried to teach hiot water on the brain

Ah-h-h-h! Depend upon it, it'll bring you and Nevill closer together"