I wish he would ask me again this autumn, to see those charters of Edward IV.'s reign that have been found in the secret drawer of an old cabinet.

I hear they are quite small, and have green seals.

I wish I had thought of asking him about them on Sunday.

If they are really small--but it was only Archdeacon Eldon who told me about them, and he never sees anything any particular size--if they should happen to be really small--" And Mr.Alwynn turned eagerly to the all-engrossing subject of the Stoke Moreton charters, which furnished him with conversation till they reached home.
_"We should consider well what we are keeping back our strength for, if we refuse to put the whole of it into our work."_ All through the afternoon and the quiet, monotonous evening these words followed Ruth.

She read them between the lines of the book she took up.
She stitched them into her sewing.