guide-posts, to the meeting that was there to take place, and it was
also true that the Rexford family--older and younger--were prepared to
hail him as a friend, simply because their knowledge of him, though
slight, was so much greater than of any other being in the place to
which they were come--and everything in this world goes by comparison.

Now the main feature of the arrival of the Rexford family in Chellaston
was that they brought their own carriage with them. It was an old, heavy
carriage, for it had come into Captain Rexford's possession in the first
place by inheritance, and it was now a great many years since he had
possessed horses to draw it. From its long and ignominious retreat in an
outhouse it had lately emerged to be varnished and furbished anew, in
order to make the handsomer appearance in the new country. It had been
one of the considerations which had reconciled Mrs. Rexford to
emigration, that on a farm this carriage could be used with little extra
expense.

Principal Trenholme had come to the station, which was a little way from
the village, in a smart gig of his own. According to Captain Rexford's
instructions, he had sent to the station a pair of horses, to be
harnessed to the aforesaid carriage, which had been carefully brought on
the same train with its owners. He had also sent of his own accord a
comfortable waggon behind the horses, and he straightway urged that the
family should repair in this at once to their new home, and leave the
carriage to be set upon its wheels at leisure. As he gave this advice he
eyed the wheelless coach with a curiosity and disfavour which was almost
apparent through his studious politeness.

His arguments, however, and Captain Rexford's, who agreed with him, were
of no avail. Mrs. Rexford, partly from sentiment, partly from a certain