What could they say of a school-mistress who marries her pupil ?" "A school-mistress, was she ?" said Yorke, in a strange husky voice.

"We never heard that in London." "Well, she was summut of that sort, Sir, though I don't know exactly what.

Young as he was, Carew was not quite child enough to be at a dame's school, that's true.

But she was not a mere servant-girl, as some said, any way, for she could play and sing--ay, songs that pleased him too--and she had book-learning, I've heard, such as would have astonished you; so that some folks said she was a witch, and had the devil's help to catch Carew.

But a woman don't want magic, bless you, to come over a lad of seventeen--not she.