27/34 If you like romance, though, I remember a tale in a little old, old book that belonged to my great grandmother. It was supposed to be true, and I dare say it may have really happened, more than a hundred years ago, just as 'The Babes in the Wood' really happened in Norfolk in Elizabethan times. Her father and mother died when she was only four years old, and she was left an orphan. She was heiress to a very great property, and her uncle, Mr.John Howard, was made her guardian. She also had another uncle, Mr.Dallas, her mother's brother, but he lived in Calcutta and she had never seen him. |