Should you like to see it ?" "Very much." She still spoke slowly, and with slight hesitation.

"It was hard for him not to have known his parents," she added, when John had left the room.

"I should like to have known them too.

But still--when I know HIM--" She smiled, tossed back the coronet of curls from her forehead--her proud, pure forehead, that would have worn a coronet of jewels more meekly than it now wore the unadorned honour of being John Halifax's wife.

I wished he could have seen her.
That minute he re-appeared.
"Here, Ursula, is all I have of my parents.