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The two elder boys ith her; and while Francis, slowly apprehending

her an to bristle up with the assurance that

"Colonel Keith never brayed in his life," Conrade caught the point with

dangerous relish, and dith colonial disrespect, that alaruarded person in his

hearing, that Lord Keith was little better than an old donkey "He is

worse than Aunt Rachel," said Conrade, meditatively, "now she has saved

Don, and keeps away from the croquet"

Meantio her heart

would have leapt at the announcement; but now her mission had found her

out, and she did not want to be drawn aside froht have h-Churchman, he was likely to be critical of the head of the F U E

E, and one too far now for her to afford to doubt, or

to receive a doubting master Moreover, it would be despicable to be

diverted froreat purpose by a courtship like any ordinary woe settle

and endowment of the asylum, and ultimate devotion of her property

thereunto No, she would school herself into a systeement, and reserve herself and her reat future establishhts of labour