The yew-hedge is too thick for me, eh, Phineas ?" "No!" cried Ursula--we had told her this little incident of our boyhood--"you have got half through it already.

Everybody in Norton Bury knows and respects you.

I am sure, Phineas, you might have heard a pin fall at the meeting last night when he spoke against hanging the Luddites.

And such a shout as rose when he ended--oh, how proud I was!" "Of the shout, love ?" "Nonsense!--but of the cause of it.

Proud to see my husband defending the poor and the oppressed--proud to see him honoured and looked up to, more and more every year, till--" "Till it may come at last to the prophecy in your birthday verse--'Her husband is known in the gates; he sitteth among the elders of the land.'" Mrs.Halifax laughed at me for reminding her of this, but allowed that she would not dislike its being fulfilled.
"And it will be too.