He is going to marry Alice Morecombe at the long last, but it will make a big difference if Launcelot's son steps in where nobody wants him.

Now, then,' he said, 'I will tell thee a far better way.

We will give this dear lad my own name, none better in old Cumbria; and we will save gold, and we will make gold, to put it to the very front in the new times that are coming.

And he will keep my name on the face of the earth, and so please the great company of his kin behind him.

And it will be far better for him to be the top-sheaf of the Latriggs, than to force his way into Seat-Sandal, where there is neither love nor welcome for him.' "And I thought the same thing, Stephen; and after that, our one care was to make you happy, and to do well to you.