He was quite pink with pleasure.
"He has asked me to go and see them," he said, "and they _are_ small, and have green seals, all excepting one,"-- referring to the letter--"which has a big red seal in a tin box, attached by a tape.
Ruth, I am perfectly _convinced_ beforehand that those charters are grants of land of the fourteenth or fifteenth century.

Sir Charles mentions that they are in black letter, and only a few lines on each, but he says he won't describe them in full, as I must come and see them for myself.

Dear me! how I shall enjoy arranging them for him, which he asked me to do.

I had really become so anxious about them that a few days ago I determined to set my mind at rest, and I wrote to him to ask for particulars, and that is his answer." Mr.Alwynn put Charles's letter into her hand, and she glanced over it.
"Why, Uncle John, he asks Aunt Fanny as well; and--'if Miss Deyncourt is still with you, pleasure,' etc .-- and _me_, too!" "When is it for ?" asked Mrs.Alwynn, suddenly sitting bolt-upright.
"Let me see.

'Black letter size about'-- where is it?
Here.