I have not wished to speak much of myself, or else I could have told you how much he had been to me during these long, weary years of illness.

But he was almost as much to every one, rich and poor, from my lady down to Miss Galindo's Sally.
The village, too, had a different look about it.

I am sure I could not tell you what caused the change; but there were no more lounging young men to form a group at the cross-road, at a time of day when young men ought to be at work.

I don't say this was all Mr.Gray's doing, for there really was so much to do in the fields that there was but little time for lounging now-a-days.

And the children were hushed up in school, and better behaved out of it, too, than in the days when I used to be able to go my lady's errands in the village.