I owe everything to the squire, and he would naturally look very much higher for a husband for his granddaughter." "Don't you be a fool, James Walsham," Mr.Wilks said.

"I made up my mind that you should marry Aggie, ever since the day when you got her out of the sea.

The squire has known, for years, what I thought on the subject.

You will meet with no opposition from him, for he is almost as proud of you as I am.

Besides, he thinks only of Aggie's happiness, and, unless I am greatly mistaken, that young lady has fully made up her mind on the subject." This was indeed the case, for Aggie, when James had settled the point with her, made no hesitation in telling him that she had regarded him as her special property since she had been a child.
"I considered it all settled, years and years ago," she said demurely, "and I was quite aggrieved, I can tell you, when, on your arrival, you just held out your hand to me, instead of--well, instead of doing the same to me as to your mother." "You shall have no reason for complaint, that way, in the future, Aggie, I promise you.