chism, while your mother goes and buys some dinner: for you’ve not had much to-day, I’ll be bound. You begin, Ben. What is your name?”

Mr. Hall stayed till Grace came back; then he hastily took his leave, shaking hands with both Farren and his wife: just at the door, he said to them a few brief but very earnest words of religious consolation and exhortation: with a mutual “God bless you, sir!” “God bless you, my friends!” they separated.