quotations."

"Well, the poverty is all over now," said Henrietta; "but still they
live in a very quiet way, considering Aunt Geoffrey's connexions and
the fortune he has made."

"Who put that notion into your head, my wise daughter?" said Mrs.
Langford.

Henrietta blushed, laughed, and mentioned Lady Matilda St. Leger, a
cousin of her aunt Geoffrey's of whom she had seen something in the
last year.

"The truth is," said Mrs. Langford, "that your aunt had display and
luxury enough in her youth to value it as it deserves, and he could not
desire it except for her sake. They had rather give with a free hand,
beyond what any one knows or suspects."

"Ah! I know among other things that he sends Alexander to school,"
said Fred.

"Yes, and the improvements at Knight Sutton," said Henrietta, "the
school, and all that grandpapa wished but could never afford. Well,
mamma, if you made the match, you deserve to be congratulated on your
work."

"There's nobody like Uncle Geoffrey, I have said, and shall always
maintain," said Fred.

His mother sighed, saying, "I don't know what we should have done