He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the villagers almost as much as their master.
"You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I had no great pleasure in our lives.

No servant would stay with us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house.

She was but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already begun to whiten, even as mine has." "Your sister is dead, then ?" "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish to speak to you.

You can understand that, living the life which I have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own age and position.

We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's house.