tenderness. While she was hesitating between both, she felt a kind
of jealous apprehension that her son was not so engaging either in
his person or address as his cousin; and therefore she said,

"I hope, Dean, the arrival of this child will give you a still
higher sense of the happiness we enjoy in our own. What an
instructive contrast between the manners of the one and of the
other!"

"It is not the child's fault," returned the dean, "that he is not so
elegant in his manners as his cousin. Had William been bred in the
same place, he would have been as unpolished as this boy."

"I beg your pardon, sir," said young William with a formal bow and a
sarcastic smile, "I assure you several of my tutors have told me,
that I appear to know many things as it were by instinct."

Young Henry fixed his eyes upon his cousin, while, with steady self-
complacency, he delivered this speech, and no sooner was it
concluded than Henry cried out in a kind of wonder,

"A little man! as I am alive, a little man! I did not know there
were such little men in this country! I never saw one in my life
before!"

"This is a boy," said the dean; "a boy not older than yourself."

He put their hands together, and William gravely shook hands with
his cousin.