What will Mr.
Ormiston and Prudence say, I wonder, when they hear this ?" "They will say what is the truth--that I am the luckiest man in England.
O Leoline! I never thought it was in me to love any one as I do you."' "I am very glad to hear it; but I knew that it was in me long before I ever dreamed of knowing you.

Are you not anxious to know something about the future Lady Kingsley's past history ?" "It will all come in good time; it is not well to have a surfeit of joy in one night.
"I do not know that this will add to your joy; but it had better be told and be done with, at once and forever.

In the first place, I presume I am an orphan, for I have never known father or mother, and I have never had any other name but Leoline." "So Ormiston told me." "My first recollection is of Prudence; she was my nurse and governess, both in one; and we lived in a cottage by the sea--I don't know where, but a long way from this.

When I was about ten years old, we left it, and came to London, and lived in a house in Cheapside, for five or six years; and then we moved here.

And all this time, Sir Norman you will think it strange--but I never made any friends or acquaintances, and knew no one but Prudence and an old Italian professor, who came to our lodgings in Cheapside, every week, to give me lessons.