The addition which Mr.Ness's bequest made to her income would enable her to do not only this, but to relieve Miss Monro of her occupation of teaching; which, at the years she had arrived at, was becoming burdensome.

When she proposed the removal to Dixon he shook his head.
"It's not that I don't thank you, and kindly, too; but I'm too old to go chopping and changing." "But it would be no change to come back to me, Dixon," said Ellinor.
"Yes, it would.

I were born i' Hamley, and it's i' Hamley I reckon to die." On her urging him a little more, it came out that he had a strong feeling that if he did not watch the spot where the dead man lay buried, the whole would be discovered; and that this dread of his had often poisoned the pleasure of his visit to East Chester.
"I don't rightly know how it is, for I sometimes think if it wasn't for you, missy, I should be glad to have made it all clear before I go; and yet at times I dream, or it comes into my head as I lie awake with the rheumatics, that some one is there, digging; or that I hear 'em cutting down the tree; and then I get up and look out of the loft window--you'll mind the window over the stables, as looks into the garden, all covered over wi' the leaves of the jargonelle pear-tree?
That were my room when first I come as stable-boy, and tho' Mr.Osbaldistone would fain give me a warmer one, I allays tell him I like th' old place best.

And by times I've getten up five or six times a-night to make sure as there was no one at work under the tree." Ellinor shivered a little.

He saw it, and restrained himself in the relief he was receiving from imparting his superstitious fancies.
"You see, missy, I could never rest a-nights if I didn't feel as if I kept the secret in my hand, and held it tight day and night, so as I could open my hand at any minute and see as it was there.