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"Both much better, Francis nearly well"

"You have had a terrible time! And their mother?"

"Dearer and sweeter than ever," said Alison, with her voice treuess half what she is!"

"I hope she has not ,

I could not have stayed away"

"The one avehoed

very ithout you"

"Yes, I had faith in your discipline, and I think that ainst Edward comes Of course there is no letter, or you would

have told ainst again

expressing a doubt; while Alison added that he hated letter-writing

"Nothing could be more satisfactory than Beauchahly convinced, that he ian

to believe that he had trusted Edward all along, and had only been

overruled"

"I dare say," said Er; "I can quite fancy honest Harry

completely persuaded that he was Edward's chaer"

"And such is his good faith, that I hope he willhis love to you, and of his hopes that

you would some day come and see the old place He made his wife quite

cordial"