I'll warrant you that the mortgage was paid off pretty fast; and Mr.Horner's money--or my lady's money, or Harry Gregson's money, call it which you will--is invested in his name, all right and tight; and they do talk of his being captain of his school, or Grecian, or something, and going to college, after all! Harry Gregson the poacher's son! Well! to be sure, we are living in strange times! 'But I have not done with the marriages yet.

Captain James's is all very well, but no one cares for it now, we are so full of Mr.Gray's.
Yes, indeed, Mr.Gray is going to be married, and to nobody else but my little Bessy! I tell her she will have to nurse him half the days of her life, he is such a frail little body.

But she says she does not care for that; so that his body holds his soul, it is enough for her.

She has a good spirit and a brave heart, has my Bessy! It is a great advantage that she won't have to mark her clothes over again: for when she had knitted herself her last set of stockings, I told her to put G for Galindo, if she did not choose to put it for Gibson, for she should be my child if she was no one else's.

And now you see it stands for Gray.