He and his mother also drew to the fire, and ere we had sat ten minutes, I caught the eye of the latter fastened steadily upon me.
Women are certainly quicker in some things than men.
"Well," she exclaimed, presently, "I have seldom seen a stronger likeness! Graham, have you observed it ?" "Observed what?
What ails the Old Lady now?
How you stare, mamma! One would think you had an attack of second sight." "Tell me, Graham, of whom does that young lady remind you ?" pointing to me.
"Mamma, you put her out of countenance.

I often tell you abruptness is your fault; remember, too, that to you she is a stranger, and does not know your ways." "Now, when she looks down; now, when she turns sideways, who is she like, Graham ?" "Indeed, mamma, since you propound the riddle, I think you ought to solve it!" "And you have known her some time, you say--ever since you first began to attend the school in the Rue Fossette:--yet you never mentioned to me that singular resemblance!" "I could not mention a thing of which I never thought, and which I do not now acknowledge.

What _can_ you mean ?" "Stupid boy! look at her." Graham did look: but this was not to be endured; I saw how it must end, so I thought it best to anticipate.
"Dr.John," I said, "has had so much to do and think of, since he and I shook hands at our last parting in St.Ann's Street, that, while I readily found out Mr.Graham Bretton, some months ago, it never occurred to me as possible that he should recognise Lucy Snowe." "Lucy Snowe! I thought so! I knew it!" cried Mrs.Bretton.And she at once stepped across the hearth and kissed me.

Some ladies would, perhaps, have made a great bustle upon such a discovery without being particularly glad of it; but it was not my godmother's habit to make a bustle, and she preferred all sentimental demonstrations in bas-relief.
So she and I got over the surprise with few words and a single salute; yet I daresay she was pleased, and I know I was.

While we renewed old acquaintance, Graham, sitting opposite, silently disposed of his paroxysm of astonishment.
"Mamma calls me a stupid boy, and I think I am so," at length he said; "for, upon my honour, often as I have seen you, I never once suspected this fact: and yet I perceive it all now.