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"Does he live in a palace, like the King? My father once saw the King's

house in a place they call London"

The gentleain "Ay, he lives in a palace, a red brick

palace, sixty feet long and forty feet deep, with a bauble on top that's

all afire on birth-nights There are green gardens, too, inding

paths, and sometimes pretty ladies walk in thes?"

The child nodded "Ay, that I would! Who is the gentle, and

that now sits by Molly? See! with his hand touching her hair Is he a

Governor, too?"

The other glanced in the direction of the sugar-tree, raised his eyebrows,

shrugged his shoulders, and returned to his fishing "That is Mr

Marreat estate,

goes abroad next enteelit Dost not like his looks, child? Half the ladies of

Williah are enamored of his beaux yeux"