nuisance. And _this_ girl will be at the head of her class no doubt.
"Lively, spirited," so far went the parent. A regular hoyden may be
read between those kind parental lines.

The poor professor feels hot again with nervous agitation as he
imagines an interview between him and the wild, laughing, noisy,
perhaps horsey (they all ride in Australia) young woman to whom he
is bound to make his bow.

How soon must this unpleasant interview take place? Once more he
looks back to the solicitor's letter. Ah! On Jan. 3rd her father,
poor old Wynter, had died, and on the 26th of May, she is to be "on
view" at Bloomsbury! and it is now the 2nd of February. A respite!
Perhaps, who knows? She may never arrive at Bloomsbury at all! There
are young men in Australia, a hoyden, as far as the professor has
read (and that is saying a good deal), would just suit the man in
the bush.



CHAPTER II.



"A maid so sweet that her mere sight made glad men sorrowing."



Nevertheless the man in the bush doesn't get her.