Now, ain't she a sweet creature?
Come, 'light--you shall see her close.

Make yourself quite at home, as I do.

I make free, for you see the old people have all along looked upon me as a son, seeing that I am to be one at some time or other." They were now at the entrance of as smiling a cottage as the lover of romance might well desire to look upon.

Everything had a cheery, sunshiny aspect, looking life, comfort, and the "all in all content;" and, with a feeling of pleasure kindled anew in his bosom by the prospect, Ralph complied readily with the frank and somewhat informal invitation of his companion, and was soon made perfectly at home by the freedom and ease which characterized the manners of the young girl who descended to receive them.

A slight suffusion of the cheek and a downcast eye, upon the entrance of her lover, indicated a gratified consciousness on the part of the maiden which did not look amiss.