Eh, lass! there's a change in us all now!" "Ah! it's like another world!" said the old woman, shaking her head slowly.

"All the folks I used to sew for at Aston, and Uppington, and Overlehill, they'd mostly be gone or dead by now.

It wouldn't seem like the same place at all.

And now there's none but you and me left, brother James.

Well, well! its lonesome, growing old." "Yes, lonesome, yet not exactly lonesome," replied old Oliver, in a dreamy voice.